They have been my only hunting rifle for at least 25 years.
The photos show my favorite 300.
It was manufactured early in the Japanese era after stopping production in Germany.
It a bit unusual because of the 24” barrel but otherwise it’s a standard MK V Deluxe.
It shoots 3 shot groups under an inch with several different types of factory loads with different bullets (150 and 180 gr)and my handloads. What really makes it stand out is that it shoots them all basically to the same place, not exactly but close enough for most big game within 250 yds. The only time I’ve sighted it in was when the 3-9 Redfield “TV” scope was mounted over 20 years ago, it’s never lost zero. People can say what they want about the push vs controlled debate but this one will feed empties from the magazine.
Granted it’s been babied and not hunted hard, I’ve had others for that but it still my favorite.
Anyways just had it out for a wipe down and thought I’d share.
Thanks for looking
chris

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Beautiful specimen you have there! You just can't beat a Weatherby for looks or accuracy. I used to have a Mark V Accumark in .300 WBY Mag but really had no use for that much cartridge. So, I found one in .30-06 (Made in USA ) and still have it.

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Longtime Weatherby fan here- have owned several German guns and currently after an early 1957-58 mfg PFI US made Mark V. Nice rifle OP- 24” bbls are the most common compared to the 26” barrels on factory Mark Vs.

I occasionally hunt with a 1961 German Mk V .270 Wby

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A friend of mine is a Mark V nut. He's aquired some with absolute gorgeous wood over the years. The Japanese guns generally had nicer stock than the German made rifles.

I have a 460 and it WILL shoot about 1" group at 100 yds with factory ammo as advertised! 😁

I owned a 300wby Fibermark years ago, I always thought that fancy stock looked cool in satin black, a shame they did away with it for the modern look. Currently I only have two Weatherby's, an early Mark V TRR in 308, and a Vanguard (Weatherby in name anways) in 30-06 that was worked over by Harry Lawson. Oddly enough I traded the Fibermark for a Ruger #1 in a Lawson stock and forend. Too deep in 300wm to justify the need for the wby, plus I'm a sucker for a Lawson rifle. Most people would think the left gun in the picture below is the Mark V, but it is actually the Vanguard. Both fine rifles, but the TRR will shoot a ragged hole at 100 yards if you do your part.

Yep, with my Fibermark 300 would put the first 3 shots touching at 100 yards ( if I passed on the coffee). Sad to see it go but I really had no use for that much power.

I have a MK V Ultralight in .270. From what I understand it has a Krieger stainless fluted barrel (blackened), a Bell and Carlson stock. A Pachmayr Decelerator recoil pad Awesome rifle.
I also have a Vanguard in 7mm Rem Mag that my wife arranged to buy for me when we were visiting the Weatherby store in South Gate CA. It was a great store - with all of the trophies on display and racks of rifles for customers to handle. Pretty cool to walk in the front door and be greeted by a standing polar bear with outstretched arms !
One of the guys I hunted with in Upstate NY in the late 80s carried a beautiful MK V in .300 Weatherby that he had received as a promotion from some bank in CO I think - you give us $ in a CD for x years we give you a scoped rifle in lieu of interest.

Roy Weatherby was a visionary. His cartridges and action design were like nothing else, yet every detail served the purpose towards fulfilling his objectives. His rifles are well made, beautiful, and accurate.
The choice of woods was usually exceptional.

One other great detail is that Roy Weatherby offered all of his rifles in all of their chamberings as left hand optional!!
So many companies today still don't offer comprehensive choices (or sometimes any choices!) for lefties!
You'd think with all the boasting about the superiority of modern rifle designs and computer controlled manufacturing, often with an emphasis on modularity, that left hand rifles would be more available.
Anyhow, "Thanks Roy!"

Nice rifle. I think the .300 was probably Weatherby's most popular cartridge.

I remember as a youngster drooling over that yearly(?) book Weatherby used to put out. The one with all the custom rifles, big game from around the world, and pictures of the various celebrities, royalty, and rich folk, posing with their trophies, taken of course, with a hot Weatherby Magnum.

I never did get to India to shoot a tiger from the back of an elephant.....

Larry

I only have a Vanguard VGX left in 300 Win Mag, it shoots great.

I used to have a Mark V in 375 H&H. It shot Remington's 270 semi spitzers in thumb nail size groups and Hornady 300 grain SBT.s in Cockroach size groups!

Me: With the SBT bullet at the same velocity as 300RN it hits 1000 foot pounds harder at 200 yards.
Shooting buddy: Who cares RN have plenty of energy at 200!
Me: Whit the SBT at the same velocity as a 300RN it shoots 14" flatter at 200 yards!
Shooting Buddy: NOW that's a big deal!

BTW it is just this side of amazing what any 375 H&H bullet will do to a ground hog at 200 to 300 yards!

Ivan

I remember looking at one of those Weatherby brochures after I got out of 5he Army in ‘76. Prior to that I had no idea such beautiful rifles existed. If I’ve ever seen one it was in a museum. Beautiful rifles.

The one I still have is my 340 WB Magnum MK V.
The 416 WB Magnum I sold as it was just too much for anything
except Africa......

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I didn’t know that, my comment on barrel length was based on the half dozen that I’ve owned over the years.
The only other 24” gun I had was a very early 257 built on a commercial fn action, a “pre MK V “ to use the term loosely

A friend of mine has had a Weatherby that looks like yours in 300 Weatherby caliber for his main hunting rifle for around 50 years. It has probably been 20 years since he has had to adjust his scope, if not longer.
He has killed all sorts of big game and varmints with it. The stock architecture fits him perfectly. He says it is like a death ray on game and he never misses, even at long range.

Chris,
Nice gun. Nice tractor too!

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Love My 300. I've had many Weatherbys in many calibers, but this is My favorite. It's a Japanese and carries a 2.5 X 8 Leupold. My handloads group under 2 inches at 300 yards. A few Elk can testify to it's accuracy ( or not ).

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I've had a number of Weatherby Mark Vs since buying my first one in 1973 at the EUCOM Rod & Gun Club in Stuttgart. Only two left now, a 338-06 and a 257 Weatherby. Well, I suppose I only really have one now as the oldest grandson has laid claim to the 257. Anyway, agree, great guns although most of the calibers are overkill for most of the hunting I do now.

Jeff
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Love that photo and really love seeing the younger generations hunt
That’s a beautiful deer
Thanks for sharing

Here his my son Forrest and grandson Eben with a deer from a few years ago, with his prized 257 WBY
We live in the timbered foothill and shots can be both very short and out to medium range(200yds)
We’re not much for sitting and would rather hunt them up on foot.

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I love seeing the youngsters. I used My 300 in Colorado. It is a bit overkill up here. My second favorite Weatherby is My 257. It's also a great cartridge for up here. Actually none better.

My Dad left me his old Weatherby. It’s made on a Mauser action and chambered in .300 H&H. It was the first “big” rifle I ever fired as a youth.

Jeff - Fine deer your grandson took there ! I believe your (his) .257 MK V is the ultralight ? Mine in .270 looks just like it.

Yes, the Ultralight model. Traded a friend for it years ago, he wasn't satisfied with the accuracy off the bench. He was firing five or six rounds in quick succession and the barrel heated rapidly and three or four inch groups were the result. But with a little time for the barrel to cool between shots it will keep them under an inch. My grandson claims nothing hit with a 257 Weatherby ever needs a second shot anyway. . . . . .

Jeff
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My son has a Japanese made MK V .300 Weatherby that his former employer gave him. It it has some honest wear but still a pretty rifle and a good shooter. He's probably killed about an equal number of good whitetail bucks between it and the old BSA .30-06 I gave him when he was 12.

A few years ago I went fishing on Molokai for a week. One day, while driving around the "back side" with a local fella we got to talking about deer hunting and I asked him what he used.

He stopped the truck, reached under the seat and handed me a .300 Weatherby Mk. V with a 3-9 Weatherby scope (no bag or cloth to protect the gun).

I asked him why he chose the .300 Weatherby and his answer was rather simple--the bullets bucked the wind (which is considerable on Molokai) better than anything else he tried. Subsistence hunting and fishing is
a very common way of life on Molokai and putting meat on the table is what counts.

My 300 Weatherby Magnum is not too different from yours even down to the exact same Redfield scope, however mine is Blonde

Back when I was a sophomore in high school, now more than 45 years ago, my father suggested that I pick out a rifle capable of taking anything in North America.

I went into the gun shop located at the indoor range where we used to shoot and spoke to one of the salesman who I had dealt with several times in the past. I explained what I was looking for and he began to show me a few rifles starting with a Remington 700.

Then he said to me something like . . . if you really want to be able to put down anything anywhere, this is what you want and he handed me the Blonde Weatherby 300 Magnum.

I think I drooled on it a little bit and just muttered out the phrase we'll take it

When it came time to talk about scopes he said there was only one choice for a rifle like this and showed me the Redfield 3-9x wide field

We did the paperwork, grabbed a few boxes of Factory ammo (they only had a few boxes), paid the man, and drove home

My father told me that if I intended to practice with this rifle I was gonna need to add metallic reloading to my hobby room because he was not going to buy as much ammo as I would want to practice with

That is the first rifle that I ever got brand new and that rifle is still with me today.

I cannot foresee parting with it for any reason. And I know that now I have to pull it out and get a picture of it

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Yes, 24” is fine ballistically but 26” guns tend to bring a premium to collectors.

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That looks like a beauty
I’ve always liked the leupold scopes
Care to share your handload
I’ve had the most consistent accuracy with IMR 7828

I remember when this used to happen with Weatherby rifles, as well, Colt revolvers (I think it was a 3 revolver group in a fancy wooden display case). IIRC, and I probably don’t, it was during the 1980’s when interest rates were very high on CD’s. Unfortunately, I never took advantage of it.
Larry

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Back in the dim recesses of my memory I seem to remember a bank in Bloomsburg, PA doing something similar.

I think I remember that one too
I’m pretty sure a bank in Colorado did it for a long time
I had the money saved a few times but something always popped up that took priority
If I remember correctly 2k for 10 years got you a scoped MKV in your choice of calibers but I’m not sure that included the big bores

The Colorado financial institution in question was our own local "Bank of Boulder", a bygone relic of the old eclectic Boulder and not the current progressive fiefdom Boulder. Such a program now would garner much attention from the Moms Who Need More Action and other professional Titanic deck chair rearrangers.

Really enjoyed this post and I for one have been patiently waiting for a picture of your MK V

Would also like information on your handloads if you feel like sharing. No need to be too specific just curious what powder you settled on and if your gun shoots different grain bullets to the same useable point of impact

Enjoyed the posts concerning the Weatherby. Always dreamed of the LazerMark in .257 caliber. Kinda out of my reach unfortunately. Beautiful wood and polish.

In this twelve year old thread I asked if the scope I randomly bought (I know almost nothing about them) was OK for the beautiful MARK V Weatherby I bought my dad. Looks like I accidentally made a great choice. It’s a Japanese version with wood too good to be true.

http://smith-wessonforum.com/firearm...Weatherby+mark

Message for the OP: your tractor is far too clean. What kind of farming you doing?

Haha
Thank you sir
No respectable farmer would have a tractor this size, it’s only a 4 series
This tractor is used to do a little farming of forest in the winter and also snow removal

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Great thread and great scope
Very nice gift for your dad! That is really awesome
Thanks for sharing
chris

I didn’t realize Weatherby’s were made in Japan now. I’ve never owned one. My son has a Weatherby shotgun. I think he said it was made in Turkey.

They aren’t- Howa production was from 1973 thru the early 90s.

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I have three Weatherbys. I never really cared for the looks, but they do the job. I actually prefer the L and A series Sako rifles. Have/had them in all the chamberings except 7x33. I prefer my AV Hunters in 6.5x55, 7x64 and 9.3x62.

257 Accumark
340 Fibermark
340 Lazermark

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I had several in the 1950-1960 era and feel that they had no equal in either fit/finish or accuracy. Even the famed Model 70 could not come close to these in my opinion. Only issue was that they all were very heavy kickers.

I agree
I’ll go one step farther, I’ll carry your dates right up to the mid 90’s
I have no experience once they left Saco so can’t talk about current production
Most model 700’s shot good, IMO M70’s aren’t even in the same book let alone the same page

Like many other folks on here, I am a rifle loony.

I own more rifles than there are days in our rifle season, so I have to play favorites when it comes to using them.

I was invited to a friend's property to hunt the last few days of the season. Was a great opportunity to fill a couple doe tags and also use some guns I hadn't hunted in awhile.

One of the guns I took was my Weatherby MK V Accumark in .340wby mag.

Its got a Leupold 4.5-14 on it and is super accurate despite being one of the shapest recoiling rifles I own.

Got a lot of sideways looks in that deer camp, few comments about "artillery".

Took 3 does on 3 shots (neck shots).

Love my Weatherby rifles

The rifle is not with me, I need to get the rifle from the safe at the Family vacation house. I will do so sometime in the next several weeks.

I was not a rifleman back then so to get lots of trigger time at the beginning, I cast some lead projectiles from #2 alloy and used Unique. I can not find my notes, but I think the load was 19 grains. I kept the powder back in the case with a tuft of fiberfill from an old bed pillow

With the 180 Jacketed soft points I used 80 grain of 4831. I did not play with other projectile weights back then. I was literally loading for bear and I wanted the 180s

No these two loads did not shoot to the same POI

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To me, a 180-gr .300 Wby is kinda like the 30-06 of the magnum 30s, essentually a “do all” cartridge/load.

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About 6 or 7 years ago, was perusing the used firearms at my LGS, where I have bought about a dozen, and noted a gorgeous rifle, a Weatherby in 257, really nice stock, bluing, just pristine, "made in USA" , so bought it, I think for about a thousand. Put on a Vortex Milrad scope and began to reload for it, as "bought" Weatherby ammo was running about 3 bucks a round. I trickle charge the last few kernels of 7828 ssc powder. I haven't had the opportunity to shoot it out past 100 yards, but for about 4 or 5 rounds, it is supremely accurate off a sand bag. After that, if I don't let it sit and cool a bit, the groups open up.

Actually I have absolutely no use for a 257 here in Mid SC, and in fact since I moved from KS near 30 years ago, haven't hunted anything. My one and only Weatherby in 257 would be a great planes rifle for antelope and the like, but useless here were I to hunt deer in the woods of SC. Which I have no intention of doing. But it is a really handsome rifle, if a bit heavy for lugging around.

Here is a nice picture of my Weatherby. I am not sure what "edition" it is, I just bought it because it such a handsome rifle.

Oh, was zeroing my new Python this afternoon at the nice AC'd range at the nearby PSA gun store. But the front sight is just too bulky for me to get a good sight picture, shooting 38 spl loads, so I have ordered a Wilson gold dot for a front sight.

Seems like a nice pistol. I will soon shoot it more. And perfected an absolutely precise pin-point impact with the Sig dot on my new 229. I am getting used to my first dot.

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