hey guys todd helms with eastman's out here today to bring you a rifle review
on the weatherby backcountry 2.0 carbon
impact that's three for three and a thousand yards with the weatherby backcountry 2.0
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here at from eastmans so i'm gonna walk down through all the specs on this gun as usual
she's kind of a sweetheart to me i guess you could say i got to actually partially work with this gun
at the weatherby factory late this summer right before its release date adam and the crew had us
come over for a writer's event and i was able to be part of that where we got to put this
particular exact rifle through the paces at weatherby's new shooting complex over in sheridan
this is outfitted with the thompson long range system the scope the reticle the level all the
whole shooting match and i just walked this thing at my own personal range here
right out to a thousand yards three consecutive hits in a five point six pound rifle this whole
package weighs less than eight pounds and to be able to do that with a hunting rifle
to just walk it out pretty much right out of the box to a thousand yards is phenomenal
it's phenomenal weatherby has the secret sauce with this rifle and the thompson long range setup
in the 3378 the 65300 and the 257 weatherby to give you a no-nonsense no dialing
long-range shooting system the heart and soul of this system is the back country 2.0 carbon that's
this rifle it gets its name from a carbon fiber barrel and what's really cool look at that stock
this is the brand new peak 44 blacktooth stock this is made right in sheridan wyoming and it
is proprietary it's the lightest carbon fiber stock that you can buy for a rifle at this time
it comes on the new backcountry 2.0 but you can buy it as a component stock and retrofit it
to whatever rifle you have as well adam promised a few years back when they moved to sheridan that
he was going to do big things well guess what if this is any indication of what weatherby
is going to continue to do as far as innovation is concerned
i'm on board i'm a fan i've shot this rifle three or four boxes of ammunition through it
now it continues to shoot sub-moa groups at every single yardage that i engage with it
so chamberings for the alden weatherby mark 5 backcountry 2.0 carbon are going to start with
257 weatherby 6'5 creedmoor 6'5 weatherby rpm 65300 weatherby 300 weatherby magnum
and then the granddaddy of them all the 3378 weatherby magnum i don't know about you but a 3378
in a tiny and a lightweight rifle like this man i'm thinking that's going to be a dragon
that thing is going to be punisher just terrible but with the accubrake st that weatherby's designed
and this this one is titanium to maintain the right balance in this lightweight rifle they
put a steel muzzle break on the end of that it's going to want to be nose heavy and it's going to
ruin the balance and balance is important to the hunting rifle especially a lightweight one
but back to the 3378 weatherby magnum adam and the crew over there
and sheridan did extensive testing to make sure that these dual tension carbon barrels
that they have gone to are not only accurate the most accurate carbon barrel that they have found
but can stand the abuse that a cartridge like a 3378 is going to to dish out adam told the crew
while we were over there that they set these barrels have set a new accuracy benchmark and
accuracy records for the weatherby company and i'm not going to tell you exactly what that number was
but they did it with a 300 weatherby magnum and it's way smaller than a half an moa
that's impressive that is impressive especially in a lightweight rifle you know you can make a rifle
that weighs 15 pounds big bench rest gun and shoot little bug hole groups all day and it's like yeah
that's great i can't take that into country like this to hunt antelope or deer or sheep or elk or
whatever i can't do that with a big heavy rifle but i can do that with a rifle that's lightweight
nimble and well-balanced like the backcountry 2.0 carbon so let's start with the stock on the
backcountry 2.0 carbon it has the sponge style paint scheme this one is in like a tan or brown
fde and an olive i think it's really attractive and it matches the patriot brown cerakote
on the action of this rifle but this is what's phenomenal about this stock i told you earlier
it's the lightest carbon fiber stock on the market at the time at this current
time weatherby was actually able to shave it all the way down so they're like 20 ounces
20 ounces with this black tooth stock from peak 44. that's unheard of most of your carbon fiber
stocks on hunting rifles are in that 22 24 26 28 ounces and those are light but they're not
as light as the black tooth that alone saves this rifle a lot in the weight column
but weatherby wasn't done there what they wanted to do is make sure that you know what
if we're going to rework the back country line up it's got to be perfect and we've got to be able
to shave some weight off what we've already done the peak 44 black 2 stock phenomenally
comfortable platform i don't know if you can see that well but it's kind of got a reverse comb
makes it really easy for me to get into i have a fairly long neck and a fairly high cheek and i
like a high combed rifle whether it be traditional style stocks have always fit me extremely well as
do as they do taller longer shooters my wife for example is uh 5 feet 10 inches tall and really
long and lean she likes that high cheek piece on the weatherby rifles that monte carlo style stock
while they did not put the monte carlo style stock on here to save weight they did keep
that traditional weatherby angled fore end so you can look at that fore end and go that's a weatherby
that's the whole point when they designed the peak 44 black tooth they wanted it completely
revolutionary but they wanted to be able to you look at it and say yeah that's a weatherby
so while we're talking about the blacktooth carbon fiber stock we got to talk about this 3d hex
recoil reducer as well call it a recoil reducer not a recoil pad because it does reduce recoil
this is the second generation of these uh the first generation was really good but weatherby
saw some room for improvement and so they went back to the drawing board and kind of revamped it
a little bit this is obviously shaped differently to fit the black tooth stock it's a little bit
stiffer than the originals which i like i like the fact that it's a little bit firmer but the whole
cool thing about the 3d hex is it's got all these voids inside it is the only 3d printed recoil pad
or recoil reducer on the market this thing has all these voids or holes in it in little hex shapes
what that does is as the gun recoils those compress those voids compress and they lengthen
out the amount of time that this rec that the recoil is affecting the shooter it cuts down
on felt recoil and big magnum chamberings like the 65 300 immeasurably i mean there's probably
probably can measure it i'm not a huge numbers guy i just know that when i shoot this thing
it feels softer than it then other six five three hundreds that i have or have current or have shot
as with all weatherby mark fives your guaranteed sub moa accuracy with this as long as you're
shooting premium factory ammunition or weatherby factory ammunition and i got to say i've shot the
127 grain lrx loading out of this and it's sub moa it's smaller than sub moa it's an absolute
tack driver which is incredible when you think about the amount of speed and force and just
powder being burned in a six five three hundred weatherby that i could literally shoot little
tiny bug hole groups with that big magnum it does it especially surprising in a rifle that weighs
less with the scope and everything is tipping the scales at less than eight and a half pounds
all right so our action we have the standard 54 degree bolt lift
but you look at this bolt and it's spiral fluted and they're deep flutes again
not satisfied with where they were with the original backcountry great rifle
i've done a review on that as well my dad killed a great antelope buck a couple years ago with
the backcountry ti in 65300 weatherby drop down there'll be a link you can go check that review
out but back to this all revamped redesigned setup here in the backcountry 2.0 carbon
will we want to cut weight we want to make this thing lighter we want to make this thing higher
performance so what do they do they spiral flute that bolt and it's not just big deep spiral flutes
what it does is it decreases surface area on the bolt as well as cuts weight and actually makes
it slide incredibly smoothly if i open this thing up it falls right open even with the fluted bolt
we still have that traditional 54 degree bolt lift that weatherby is famous for not the 90
degree comes all the way up what that 54 degree does is it makes faster cycling because you
don't have to throw that bolt all the way up here you just bring it up boom and it's
that's pretty quick weatherby's famous for that 54 degree bolt throw we have a skeletonized
lightweight bolt knob this bolt handle is trimmer
there's been extra material taken out of the top of the bolt here on the mark five
the mark five action is strong it's accurate and now it's lightweight gotta love that
this is a trigger tech trigger weatherby's been doing that for a while now since pretty much since
they moved to sheridan they started getting trigger tech triggers in all their mark fives
and i got to tell you i'm a huge fan of the trigger tech triggers like all premium triggers
it's going to perform but i like the adjustability and i like the the way that the trigger techs just
work i like the way they feel i like the way they break for me the trigger tech trigger is
a win in this rifle so going out to the end of the barrel we've got the accubrake st that's a big one
right well that's the titanium version like i said earlier it helps balance this rifle out
it's balanced perfectly right in the middle if it was steel it would be nose heavy nobody would
want to carry that thing around the accubrake st reduces recoil by up to 53 percent which i don't
know about you but in a lightweight platform like this with a big powerful chambering like a 65 300
that's a lot of recoil to soak up into your shoulder why not mitigate that with a high
quality muzzle break now do i hunt with that you bet i just make sure i have hearing protection
and before i shoot i put my hearing protection in and i can hunt with this doesn't damage my hearing
at the range i double up i use foam plugs and headphones but i do that anyway anymore because
my ears gotten sensitive as i've gotten a little older and i like to keep what hearing i have left
actually so muzzle brake on this the accubrake st great addition to the lineup and thank you
weatherby for making this one titanium because it just makes this perfectly balanced all right
the carbon fiber barrel that helps add to the name backcountry 2.0 carbon is sweet i remember
the first carbon barrel weatherby that i shot uh years ago actually killed a pretty nice mule
deer buck with that over in the black hills and was very impressed with that rifle weatherby has
since gone away from that particular barrel and done something a little bit different this is a
dual tensioned carbon fiber barrel it's tensioned here and it's tensioned here what that does is it
allows weatherby to fine-tune the rigidity on the steel barrel that's inside here now
95 of this carbon does not touch the steel barrel that's inside there so it's touched here and here
and all this length is free floating so this is like a carbon fiber tube that your steel barrel
sits inside of that does a couple things it allows you to fine tune the tension on that steel barrel
by twisting here and twisting here but it also provides exceptional cooling
because there's air surrounding all of this we know air is a great insulator but it's also a
great cooling agent all of the firearms that i shoot with carbon fiber barrels tend to cool down
a lot faster than my steel barreled rifles do no exception with this one big monster chamberings
like the weatherby magnums produce a lot of heat there's a lot of gas that flows through here
a lot of heat gets built up you can eat up barrels and throats of barrels if you're not careful the
carbon fiber system that weatherby puts on this backcountry 2.0 carbon mitigates that really
really nicely this rifle cools extremely well i have not personally actually timed it with a timer
but to go from cold shot to cold shot on this rifle you're looking at a matter of minutes
versus 20 15 20 30 minutes on steel rifles and it may even be longer on some of those steel barreled
rifles so we've got the hinged floor plate on the weatherby backcountry 2.0 carbon and got some
fresh new artwork that weatherby designed and put on there it looks sweet all right so you wrap all
of this goodness up and then you slap a bunch of cerakote on it because two reasons cerakote's cool
and it's super tough i mean i could literally use this thing as a canoe paddle if i needed to
not that I want to use a rifle this nice as a canoe paddle but i could
again this is the steel version there's a titanium version as well that's even
lighter than this one substantially lighter it's a little bit more money but
it's titanium you're gonna pay for that titanium you're gonna pay for that reduced weight even
over the steel version personally out of the two i like the way the steel version looks i know i know
way to be shallow todd but got to be honest with you i like the paint scheme on this one i like
this patriot brown cerakote on both the accubrake st and the action i like the fde complements
on the stock the olive the olive sponge splotches on this thing i just think it looks
sharp this thing to me just looks like it belongs in elk camp if you are in the market for a new
lightweight hunting rifle guys it doesn't get much better than the weatherby mark 5
backcountry 2.0 so thank you again for watching until next time we'll see you in the field