Why does weatherby get a pass?

[MClark]

From when I was a kid I always wanted a 460. When I was around 40 I decided I could buy anything I wanted. Not needing, just wanting I could hold out for one at the right price.
Ended up with a MkV with an oil finish mesquite stock and iron sights. When putting the brake on we gave it a fine bead blast and reblue.
I hunted with it in Africa.

 

[jackieschmidt]

From when I was a kid I always wanted a 460. When I was around 40 I decided I could buy anything I wanted. Not needing, just wanting I could hold out for one at the right price.
Ended up with a MkV with an oil finish mesquite stock and iron sights. When putting the brake on we gave it a fine bead blast and reblue.
I hunted with it in Africa.

I never have fired a 460, but watched a fellow Club Member get one ready for a trip to Africa,. He was at the 50 yard line shooting off of cross sticks.
I’m glad he did not ask me if I wanted to try it.

 

[MClark]

I never have fired a 460, but watched a fellow Club Member get one ready for a trip to Africa,. He was at the 50 yard line shooting off of cross sticks.
I’m glad he did not ask me if I wanted to try it.

With out the brake it’s pretty rough.
I put a radial type brake we made where I worked, an extra row of hole, and it is tamed do to be like a regular magnum.
Sound is fierce.

 

[Old Navy]

The first time I got to hold a Weatherby was almost as memorable as the the first time I got to hold a pair of ......

 

[hpshooter]

The first time I got to hold a Weatherby was almost as memorable as the the first time I got to hold a pair of ......

US Keds that made you run faster and jump higher!! Or was that ad for Red Ball Jets?

I shot a 460 twice in the 80's that was enough. Same loads that the owner took a Cape Buff and an Elephant. Not for the faint of heart.

 

[Doug Casner]

That was PF Flyers .Doug

 

[Old Navy]

US Keds that made you run faster and jump higher!! Or was that ad for Red Ball Jets?

I shot a 460 twice in the 80's that was enough. Same loads that the owner took a Cape Buff and an Elephant. Not for the faint of heart.

Not even close.

 

[ISS]

As a kid, I used to go to a LGS every spring and pay $5 for the newest Weatherby catalog. It was like 150 pages long, slick paper. And, all those images of millionaires gun rooms full of head and shoulder mounted game heads from Africa and Alaska/Canada and Europe. My gosh, John Wayne was in several, along with Elgin Gates. I even bought one, a German MKIV in 300 Weatherby Magnum. Gaudy! for sure. Gates had moved to Idaho by then, and was a Major Player in IHMSA; iirc. I sold it to him.
Today, shooters are a more pragmatic group; finely figured Walnut and rust blued steel are passe. It's tupperware and Cerakote. And, we are the poorer for that...

 

[SSL]

Was chatting with a buddy about this . Seem when folks are getting a lil upset and going on tirades about new wizbang wildcats, the ARC's , Valkyries , PRC's ..y'all know the conversations , no one and I mean NO ONE seems to have a thing to say about weatherby and there multitude of rather..... unique ( if you ask me ) wildcats . Gotta ask ....why do they get a pass lol ? only thing I can think is it's because they don't to the annoying marketing and such that Hornady and the like does .....that or it's a legacy thing...they've been doing it for longer ect..

Because Roy Weatherby was a great salesman and actually used his creations.
Not a real fan, but he did a great job of promoting his product.

 

[Murray Brook]

All in all what's not to like about Weatherby. They are an American company, operating in the US (not off shore) employing American workers that pay taxes to the American government and they make a great product. When they moved from a non friendly gun state they did not move from the US, but to another state that shares their 2'nd amendment views. Wish we had a company like them up here. JMO

 

[ebb]

The one I shot that had a bake, but it was milled into the barrel and nonremovable. It was a pussy cat, less than my non braked 338 win mag. I always wanted to take it to the junk yard and see what it would do to the 671 detroit block. The 338 win mag was the undisputed champ, but none of the junkyard crew had big rifles, they were more like MAC 10 guys.

 

[Oso]

There are two things that make me think of Weatherby..

1) It’s a shame that the Ruger No 1 isn’t a Weatherby Rifle….it just seems so right. Maybe with case hardened receiver and “Weatherby” grade Wood.

2) There is something aesthetically pleasing about the round “bell” style shoulders on Weatherby cartridges. Every time I doing some case forming and the new shoulder is 80% formed (still rounded) I smile and think “Weatherby”

 

[TC260]

Never gotten around to owning any of the Weatherby rifles or cartridges but I've come close a few times to getting a rifle chambered in 257 Weatherby. My ex father in law had one and it was hell on deer.

 

[SSL]

Never gotten around to owning any of the Weatherby rifles or cartridges but I've come close a few times to getting a rifle chambered in 257 Weatherby. My ex father in law had one and it was hell on deer.

Had a .257 years ago. Guy owed me quite a bit of money and offered it to me as part payment. Really liked it and was a real deer getter, but a few years later a guy who collected the early rifles (and mine fell into his range) offered me about twice what I thought it was worth. Bye bye rifle!