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Originally posted by JeffP:

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Originally posted by Mike378:
Mike B

Don't hold back, anything is allowed on a Weatherby thread.

Mike

Anything except them damn fugly guns.

This will help get the weatherby out of everyones eyes.

Thanks Jeff, I needed that.

Cobra

Try this for size. A few nice conservative Wbys

https://forums.accuratereloading.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/1.../913107281#913107281

Cobra,

In case they were too conservative here is a nice one.

http://heritagearms.net/images/consignment/CrownCustom.jpg

dont know how anyone can buy a rifle that looks like that........

Nevster

If you are talking about the gold plated ones 2 posts above yours, the bloke who owned them could of walked into H&H and bought their entire stock with his loose change

Mike

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Originally posted by Mike378:
Cobra,

In case they were too conservative here is a nice one.

http://heritagearms.net/images/consignment/CrownCustom.jpg

That Crown Custom is beautiful Mike.

Cobra,

Open this thread on an Australian forum and scroll down and you will see what a Royal Custom looks like with Crown Custom inlays

http://www.australianhunting.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t...ostorder=asc&start=0

About the third post down there is a link where the bloke did a Snow Camo for me with 26 inch barrel instead of 24 inchs. I wanted to see what the rifles wuld be like before buying.

Mike

PS,

The second page of the thread also shows what a Crown Custom looks like with the inlays removed.

Mike

quote:

Originally posted by Mike378:
Cobra,

Open this thread on an Australian forum and scroll down and you will see what a Royal Custom looks like with Crown Custom inlays

http://www.australianhunting.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t...ostorder=asc&start=0

About the third post down there is a link where the bloke did a Snow Camo for me with 26 inch barrel instead of 24 inchs. I wanted to see what the rifles wuld be like before buying.

Mike

Mike, that link took me to the login page. I can get to the forum index but I didn't know which thread it was.

I just discovered you need to be a member from AKA.

If you PM me your email I can paste the pictures into an email.

Mike

quote:

Originally posted by Mike378:
I just discovered you need to be a member from AKA.

If you PM me your email I can paste the pictures into an email.

Mike

Hi Mike, you have mail.

Lhook7,
You do not need a thesaurus to describe those guns, We have a word readily available, and the word smells terrible! hint hint

I couldn't help it, I looked, I gaged, I puked..

quote:

Originally posted by cobra:

quote:

Originally posted by Mike378:
I just discovered you need to be a member from AKA.

If you PM me your email I can paste the pictures into an email.

Mike

Hi Mike, you have mail.

Gorgeous, now that's a rifle.

Ray,

I was thinking of getting one done in 404

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Originally posted by Mike378:
Ray,

I was thinking of getting one done in 404

Uh oh.

Cobra,

A mate of mine reckons if you did a Crown Custom with Special Select Claro and gold plated in 375 H&H then H&H would take legal action

Mike

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Originally posted by Mike378:
Cobra,

A mate of mine reckons if you did a Crown Custom with Special Select Claro and gold plated in 375 H&H then H&H would take legal action

Mike

Can we go back to the girls again?

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Originally posted by Atkinson:
Lhook7,
You do not need a thesaurus to describe those guns, We have a word readily available, and the word smells terrible! hint hint

I couldn't help it, I looked, I gaged, I puked..

Thanks Ray, you saved me some time. I hadn't made it to "S" yet.

mike asked me to post the pics





the snow camo one would be neat as a 550 magnum

jeffe

I feel the desret camo guns are there best looking rigs....they very "tough"

Jeffe,

Thanks for doing those.

PC,

I can feel pairing and Wby disease developing down your way.

If you want go el cheapo you can buy the stock from Wby for $450, get the 460 one, A 30/378 Synthetic and a 550 barrel and you are on your way. Import a few jacketed bullets from the bloke in Canada and shoot 700 grain flat nose cast.

With the 378 based Wbys they a in line feed so that is all simple and reliable.

If you go to http://www.gunsamerica.com there is plenty of cheap 30/378s that have fired 9 shots

Mike

"Faint of heart"? More like "stong of stomach".

I like the lovely ladies dress sense however. Defies gravity.

If I was to meet someone carrying any of the above guns then I´d have to quote Larsson the cartoonist:

"Do not toucheth him for God has rendered this man without taste"

Amen

Cewe,

One of the attractions for us Wby fans is that so many people dislike them.


An interesting thing about rifle appearance is that the non shooter will virtually pick the Wby everytime. I use to be i=very involved with bench rest guns chambered in calibres like 6mm/06 and 270. In Australia we have an alloy stock that was based on the old Rem 40 X stock and the stock is a skeleton except for the action area. I had 4 of them in different colours and they sort of have a space gun look about them. Non shooters thought they were the top looking rifles. In fact at the time I had a custom Model 70 that was stocked by a bloke NitroX will know, Ross Waghorn, and the non shooters thought it looked like a heap of shit compared to the "space guns"

Mike

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If you are talking about the gold plated ones 2 posts above yours, the bloke who owned them could of walked into H&H and bought their entire stock with his loose change Smiler

Mike

if thats the case then it is a good example of the old saying "money cant buy class"

personally i just cant see the attraction, but hey whatever floats your boat is fine by me

Craig.

Craig

Herb Klein was a texas oil man and was one of the big original investors in Weatherby.

Mike

ah i see, that would explain it.

Craig,

Up until about the mid 70s or so Weatherby use to put out the Weatherby Guide. They are collecors items now. They were like a big catalogue with heaps of pictures of game animals and of course a lot of pictures of tarted up Wbys and trophy rooms of the like you could not imagine.

But the most interesting thing is how they illustrate how much the shooting the world has changed.

They were chock full of celebrities and actors with their Wbys and trophies etc. and also politicians. One of Wbys full page adds use to have John Wayne with the rifle. How things have changed. You would never see that today.

Although Preident Bush 1 was presented with the first Weaterby when they started remaking them back in the US. I think the serial number is GHB001

Mike

Just proves that money and taste are two distinct things. PUKE

Mike378: That has to be one of the ugliest guns in existence. Blue? Why?

Probably matched the teams colours. It is wood, not pastic.

Mike

Blue wood? Man that is a very fugly gun!