I needed to shoot flat enough for the Mountain Reedbok, and hit hard enough for the Eland, and more than half the animals were elk-sized (Kudu, Hartebeest, Wildebeests, Waterbuck, etc).
So, I took my Weatherby Mark V .340 Wby Stainless (true stainless earlier model, not the current silver coated carbon steel Weathermark); 26" barrel; stainless steel bottom; Bell & Carlson Medalist Kevlar & Aramid stock with full length aluminum bedding block and pillars; Zeiss Diavari Z 2.5-10x48 30 mm tube; drilled & tapped for 8x40 base screws; Talley bases and rings).
I shot Weatherby factory ammo with 250 gr Nosler Partition. The rifle is sighted +4" @ 100 yd; +5" @ 200 yd (horizontal cross hair on the belly line between 50 and 200 yd); zero @ 300 yd; -11" @ 400 yd (horizontal cross hair on the shoulder line a 400 yd).
Yeah, I know, some people say they do it better with 7x57 for everything, or 22-250 for all I know, and God bless them is they are happy with it, but I like to hit them hard. If there is one thing that 40 years in the hunting fields taught me, is that not everything will always go perfectly, and a big bullet with a lot of energy will never make up for poor shot placement, but it sure does give you an edge for 'any angle' follow up shots, all the way up to 500 yd if need be.
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