Yeah that's right Weatherby and Wyoming pretty good combination we're here today
to talk about a rifle that weighs less than 6 lbs and brings you true
Magnum performance in other words I'm here reviewing the Weatherby the all-new
Weatherby Backcountry Titanium and this one is in 6.5 - 300 an incredibly potent
round this is a combination ladies and gentlemen that you just haven't seen
much of where we take a rifle that is the lightest it could possibly be and
put a big magnum cartridge in it and it still shoots like a house of fire
I'm gonna walk you through exactly why if you're in the market for a mountain
rifle something that's light easy to carry you have got to look at the
Weatherby Backcountry Titanium so I told you this is an all new rifle from
Weatherby Weatherby has always had one thing you can look at a Weatherby from a
hundred yards away and know that it was a Weatherby well guess what that look
a little different to you when they moved to Sheridan Wyoming Adam Weatherby
set out to change the face of Weatherby they wanted to produce a rifle
that was extremely lightweight and easy to carry in the backcountry but still
bring you all of the Weatherby cartridge performance that you're used
to they have designed a brand new cartridge specifically to go with the
Backcountry TI in the 6.5 RPM and I'll have a review coming up about that
sometime in the future but today we've got the 6.5 - 300 in the Backcountry
Titanium and I got to be honest I've had my chances to put this rifle through the
bases a little bit I've shot some prairie dogs with it I've shot some
steel with it I haven't hunted with the rifle yet because there's no hunting
seasons that I have a tag for open in Wyoming yet that I could shoot with a
rifle but you could bet that this rifle is going to be in my hands
as soon as I can get out in the field and I'm gonna be shooting 127 grain
Barnes LRX load out of the 6.5 - 300 Weatherby this bullet leaves the barrel
of this rifle at about 3,530 feet per second I chronographed a handful
of these specific loads for consistency and my standard deviation
was really small I want to say within about 5 ft / second of each other I
had a perfect average and it was really close to what Weatherby advertised
so I just went ahead and made my dope chart with the ballistic
app on my phone but that's all minutia let's get to the nuts
and bolts of what makes this brand new Weatherby Backcountry TI really
unique and a real shooter so we have an all new recoil pad design called the 3D
HEX if you've never seen a recoil pad like this because there's never been a
recoil pad like this Weatherby knew that if they were going to create an
extremely lightweight rifle in their potent magnum rounds they had to have
something that would soak up some of that energy coming back towards the
shooter and the 3D HEX Recoil Pad is the answer to that probably the most
striking thing that you noticed though about this Weatherby is that it doesn't
look like a Weatherby as I said when I held it up a minute ago it does not have
that Monte Carlo stock very unique lines if you will that Weatherbys are known
for this is a complete departure from that honestly it doesn't handle like any
Weatherby I've ever shot either This thing is extremely light the Backcountry
TI in 6.5 - 300 is gonna come in sub 6 pounds we're talking like 5.8 - 5.9 lbs
that's extremely light for a Weatherby when I got this out of
the box one of the things that everybody in the office did well they picked it up
and went whoa that's a Weatherby that's what Adam in the gang over at Sheridan
we're getting at they wanted something that was lightweight easy to carry
because let's face it in a hunting rifle you're gonna carry it a lot more than
you're gonna shoot it in the field they're having a rifle that is light and
portable just makes sense so you would think that in a big monster like the 6.5 -
300 that this sub 6 lb rifle would tear
your shoulder off not the case like I said before you've got the 3D HEX recoil
pad but Weatherby also completely redesigned the Accubrake this is the
Accubrake ST and it is a flush to barrel design that frankly if you've
looked at Weatherbys' in the past their muzzle brakes kind of had a little
bubble to them on the end this is a flush design there is it's right in line
with the barrel it's slim and trim it looks great and it performs this rifle
I've put an entire box of the Barnes 127 LRX rounds downrange now and it doesn't
kick it just doesn't kick back to the barrel you've got the brand new Accubrake ST
but you've also got a deeply fluted barrel which is going to increase
rigidity of the barrel but increased surface area as well to allow for
maximum cooling times so if you do need to put some successive rounds downrange
this rifles gonna cool off and allow you to do that on the 6.5 - 300 the
barrel is a # 2 contour and it is 26" long from action to the end of
the brake 28" but actual rifled barrel is 26" ringing all the performance
you're going to need to get out of the 6.5 - 300 cartridge the action of the
Backcountry TI is what lends the TI to the name Backcountry TI this is a
titanium action another way that Weatherby found that they could cut weight
while maintaining even increasing the performance of this rifle this is one of
the most accurate Weatherbys I've ever shot I know I said that last year when I
reviewed the Weatherby Mark V Carbonmark in 257 this might have it
beat folks so not quite done with the features you've got your standard 54
Degree Bolt lift on the Mark V action this is the 9 Lug because it's a 6.5 - 300
the rifles also offered in 6.5 RPM 6.5 Creedmoor 280 Ackley IMP I think that
covers what they offer in the 6 Lug Action as well as I believe the 240 is
offered in Weatherbys great 6 Lug Action making the gun even lighter if
you want to get as light as you could possibly get look at the new 6.5
RPM or maybe a 280 Ackley in the 6 Lug version of the Backcountry TI you're
gonna shave even more ounces and that's that rifle is gonna be sub 5 pounds I
think about 4.8 - 4.9 in the new 6.5 RPM one more feature that that whether it be
decided you know what as long as we're rehashing the Mark V's
let's look at the trigger too all of Weatherby's new Mark V's come with a
Triggertech Trigger this is a fully adjustable trigger anywhere from about
8 lbs down to right at 2.5 lbs I've got this one adjusted down to
2.5 lbs it is super crisp and very light it's gonna make a great
hunting rifle in the field because I'm not gonna have to worry about taking up
a lot of poundage or creep at all in the trigger squeeze barrel is also fully
Cerakoted this rifle is completely weatherproof your bolts Cerakoted
trigger guard your barrel is completely Cerakoted it's black in this case and
it sits in a Carbon Fiber Stock with the titanium action and all those other
attributes this rifle is virtually indestructible you could use this thing
as a canoe paddle if you needed to I'm not saying that you should but you could
Adam in the gang over at Sheridan really thought through everything when
it came to redesigning and creating an all-new Mark V rifle in the Backcountry
TI and like all Mark V's this bad boy comes with Weatherby's Sub-MOA Guarantee
but we're gonna just walk it out and shoot some steel with it and have some
fun let's step it straight out to 300 yards should be dead-on
that's what hunting rifle should do right there three shots 300 yards
ping ping ping no problem so now I'm gonna walk it out I'm gonna pull up my
app At 500 yards I have a come-up of 3.70 MOA so
I am just gonna dial that there's 3 just shy of 4 MOA and we're gonna go
with it rifle is hot and we're ready to go
there you go 500 yards got about I don't know probably 2 - 3 MOA of wind that I
have to deal with right now the winds come up a little bit I am very
comfortable with this Weatherby Backcountry Ti to take it out and shoot in
my maximum effective range ladies and gentlemen that is the Weatherby
Backcountry TI in a nutshell and you need to be taking a hard hard look at
this because this is a total revamp from Weatherby and one that I think is going
to make big waves in the hunting industry
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