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Why is there not much talk about Weatherby Rifles?
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<blockquote data-quote="436" data-source="post: 2247370" data-attributes="member: 16609"><p>The first Weatherby a bought was at Warshals Sporting Goods in Seattle in the early 70s it was an Mk V 26" Delux in 257 Wby Mag, the second a year or so later was the Lazermark again in 257 Wby, later in the 90s I bought an Accumark, yep... also in .257 Wby Mag, that same year I sold my first two, (mistake) and bought a custom MkV in .338 Win Mag, also in the 90s I bought a matching set handpicked original MkV Varmintmasters with the superb miniature actions, one in 22-250 Rem the other in .224 Wby Mag which today are the only ones I have left, the 22-250 Rem have been re-barrel to a 6XC... Tubb's talked me into that while we were shooting a match in Raton NM it turned at to be a fantastic combo for a carry Deer and Yote rifle. All of the Weatherby rifles over the years have been very accurate I can remember one that did shoot a three-shot group under a 1 MOA or better in 257 Wby Mag'..., and the Accumark and Varmintmasters as a 22-250 Rem, (before re-barrel) and 224 Wby Mag hover around 1/2" and 3/4" actually the .224 Wby Mag shooting in the 1/2" inch every time I benched it if... I do my part. So are they accurate, yes I found them to be very accurate, do they cost more, yep... but, beautiful wood and blue steel are going to, add performance and just a **** fine-looking life old school hunting rifle, how could you not like them? They are exceptionally built rifles. </p><p></p><p>The top is the 6XC and the bottom is the .224 Wby Mag the other pic is the .22-250 Rem re-barreled with Krieger in 6XC the new barrel was exactly contoured to the factory barrel so the wood wouldn't have to be touched and the old barrel could be re-installed. </p><p></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]287158[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]287159[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="436, post: 2247370, member: 16609"] The first Weatherby a bought was at Warshals Sporting Goods in Seattle in the early 70s it was an Mk V 26" Delux in 257 Wby Mag, the second a year or so later was the Lazermark again in 257 Wby, later in the 90s I bought an Accumark, yep... also in .257 Wby Mag, that same year I sold my first two, (mistake) and bought a custom MkV in .338 Win Mag, also in the 90s I bought a matching set handpicked original MkV Varmintmasters with the superb miniature actions, one in 22-250 Rem the other in .224 Wby Mag which today are the only ones I have left, the 22-250 Rem have been re-barrel to a 6XC... Tubb's talked me into that while we were shooting a match in Raton NM it turned at to be a fantastic combo for a carry Deer and Yote rifle. All of the Weatherby rifles over the years have been very accurate I can remember one that did shoot a three-shot group under a 1 MOA or better in 257 Wby Mag'..., and the Accumark and Varmintmasters as a 22-250 Rem, (before re-barrel) and 224 Wby Mag hover around 1/2" and 3/4" actually the .224 Wby Mag shooting in the 1/2" inch every time I benched it if... I do my part. So are they accurate, yes I found them to be very accurate, do they cost more, yep... but, beautiful wood and blue steel are going to, add performance and just a **** fine-looking life old school hunting rifle, how could you not like them? They are exceptionally built rifles. The top is the 6XC and the bottom is the .224 Wby Mag the other pic is the .22-250 Rem re-barreled with Krieger in 6XC the new barrel was exactly contoured to the factory barrel so the wood wouldn't have to be touched and the old barrel could be re-installed. [ATTACH type="full"]287158[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full"]287159[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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