Weatherby's New 307 Alpine CT Rifle

Backcountry Hunting Podcast

Joseph von Benedikt

Backcountry, Rifle, Deer, Podcast, Elk, Mountain, Sports, Hunt, Wilderness, Cartridge, Hunting

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🗓️ 29 May 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

RIFLE REVIEW! For the first time ever, Weatherby's excellent new Model 307 action is available with a carbon-fiber stock and a carbon-fiber-wrapped barrel. It's called the Alpine CT, and is a wonderful lightweight hunting rifle.

I took one chambered in 7mm PRC to New Zealand this spring, and was real impressed. It's reliable, accurate, ergonomic, and has all the features I like in a backcountry hunting rifle. And for what you get (custom-level action & trigger; high-end carbon-fiber stock; carbon-wrapped barrel) it just might be the best value on the market. ENJOY!

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0:00.0	Folks I am really excited about this rifle just announced on Weatherby's website today.
0:07.2	I've been waiting a long time to talk about this specific rifle and why it's so good. It just might be the best model available within
0:16.0	its price bracket. So this is the Alpine CT built on the Weatherby model 307 action.
0:24.7	So what's special about this rifle?
0:26.7	Well, it's got the 307 action, which is Weatherby's
0:29.6	most recent action design.
0:31.8	We'll talk more about that in a moment. Plus it's got a state of the
0:34.9	art carbon fiber stock and a carbon fiber wrapped barrel. This combination has not been
0:40.5	available built on that 3.07 action until now.
0:45.6	So let's start with that action.
0:47.0	It's fundamentally a Remington 700 type action
0:50.0	has a 700 type footprint.
0:51.6	It's fit with a very nice trigger tech
0:54.0	Remington 700 trigger. Classic two position safety to the side of the bolt
0:59.9	there right? That's kind of where the similarities with the Old Remington 700
1:04.8	action stop. This bolt has a modified M16 type extractor in it. Much more robust stronger type of extractor than the classic
1:16.4	Remington 700 Rothlot. Deeply Fluted, it's got a toolless disassembly. I'm not going to demonstrate that today, but you can take this
1:25.0	bolt apart in 30 seconds for maintenance and put it back together just as quickly.
1:30.4	Really, really nice action here. It's got a side bolt release on the left rear of the action in that best spot.
1:39.0	That's another big improvement over the traditional push button type of bolt release inside the front of the
1:44.1	trigger guard.
1:45.9	And the last really important thing about this action is that it's machined right here in
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