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#10MinuteTalk - The 240 Weatherby Mag. – Fast as Lightning or Flash in the Pan?

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🗓️ 16 May 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

All gas no brakes, the high-stepping .240 Weatherby Mag. is classic Roy. This 6mm speedster has a lot to offer. But its performance comes at a cost. Do the negatives outweigh the positives? How does it compare to modern 6mm cartridges? Why isn’t it more popular? Mark Boardman and Ryan Muckenhirn take the 240 Weatherby Mag. head on in this cartridge talk all about the last cartridge designed by Roy Weatherby himself.

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0:00.0

What is up, everybody? Mark on the mic here. My good friend, Mr. Ryan Muckenherne across

0:07.6

me. Today, we're going to talk about the last cartridge designed by Mr. Roy Weatherby

0:14.7

himself, the 240 Weatherby. Ryan, this is one that when we first kind of start talking

0:21.9

about. I think it was a listener request. I think somebody brought it up. Somehow it

0:26.2

ended up on our list to talk about. Maybe it was you. I don't know. We're always

0:31.0

talking cartridges these days. It seems to be bad. One, you don't really hear about that

0:36.6

often. No. What's going on here? It's one I've always wanted. Always wanted. No good

0:41.8

reason. I was going to say, has it evaded you? No, you're just kind of like, can't justify

0:46.9

it. Couple of times that I almost pulled the proverbial trigger. I talked myself off

0:52.3

the ledge because I'm like, what is this really giving me other than it has an enormous

0:57.0

amount of like sex appeal? Yes. There's something innately attractive about the cartridge. I

1:05.1

don't know if it's nostalgia of which I was not part of, you know, this cartridge came

1:09.9

out in the late 60s. I think 68 is saying here. I mean, it wasn't around when it came

1:16.6

out or just like what it represents 20 years later, 1988. 88. Oh my gosh. Yeah. I remember

1:26.0

when I remember when my dad got his 88 F 250. Wow. Went on a lot of adventures in that truck.

1:31.4

You were just a babe. Just a pop. But it's a super cool cartridge. It's something very

1:38.4

fascinating about it. And you know, you're wearing a really appropriate shirt today. We

1:43.6

got your speed go from the Gohan speed code edition shirt. And boy, you want to talk about

1:49.0

a phenomenal pronghorn cartridge. It would be hard to beat. This thing, I guess it's got

1:55.4

all the Roy, whether be attributes or at least most of them. Yeah. She's fast. Today not

2:03.1

as fast as you might think, but at the time, nothing like it. At the time for sure, the

2:09.1

fastest six. Oh, yes. Oh, yes, which is also a 240.243. Yep. I love these these talking.

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