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24 August 2005, 22:57
500grainsMike378 - for you...
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Beautiful Mark V Weatherby Custom by H. Lawson Co. #650 in 375 H&H Magnum. Green Tiger Stripe Maple Thumbhole Stock, Burris 1 3/4 x 5 Signature scope. Safety is located on the trigger guard. Barrel was ported by custom gun maker.Condition is 99% $2650
25 August 2005, 04:57
Tex21No sir.
Jason
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25 August 2005, 06:14
Mike378No way at all

Although a rifle that looks like that and especially if it is a Made in Japan Wby action would be a bit of shit stir being chambered in 375 H&H.

Mike
25 August 2005, 06:38
Michael RobinsonMike,
What turned you off?
The thumbhole stock?
The non-Weatherby caliber?
The trigger guard safety?
The made in Japan stigma?
All of the above?

Mike
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25 August 2005, 07:09
Mike378MR
I hate thumbhole stocks.
I think flash Wbys should be Wbys
I think 375 H&H and Wby together are revolting and doubly so with that pile of junk. Although I did very briefly own a stainless Mark V in 375 when the first Made in US Wbys came to Australia. It caused me to break out in hives.
I did not get as far as the trigger guard

Mike
25 August 2005, 08:05
lawndartMike,
I have a 375 Weatherby reamer that you are welcome to use.
We can cut the top part off of the thumbhole area.
I have some gold and platinum wire that my sister gave me; that would be great for inlays - map of Australia maybe?
Flash is flash, eh?
Go for it.
lawndart
25 August 2005, 08:22
Mike378lawndart
I bet if chambered in 378 or 460 and no muzzle brake that rifle at the very least would have "character building" recoil

Mike
Thats gross - 500 gns where the heck did you drag that up from?
quote:
Originally posted by MLG:
Thats gross - 500 gns where the heck did you drag that up from?
500 please post a picture of a gun I can't afford again thats putrid

25 August 2005, 16:51
Mike378There are some interesting M70s available for viewing

I am not sure if Winchester would want to claim ownership.

With Mauser you have the choice of the old actions or the 3 or 4 new ones made each year. Well, it would be a lot more than 3 or 4. I suppose Granite would make 300 actions a year.

But then one wonders because Empire claim to be the biggest consumer of Granites.

How many actions would H&W make. Not long ago it was posted that D'Arcy Echols would cut the bolt handle off and Burgess would throw away the bottom metal from an H&W for a 505 Gibbs.
Is the H&W this bad or are Echols and Burgess full of bullshit.
Mike
25 August 2005, 19:24
RustyMike, I agree with you!
If you buy a Weatherby it needs to be chambered in a Weatherby caliber!
Rusty
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25 August 2005, 21:26
Mike378Rusty,
It just goes to show the law of numbers work.
For all the years we have crossed swords we have hit agreement

Mike
25 August 2005, 21:53
Mike378Rusty,
If George comes on and agrees with me the forum is in deep shit

Might have to return to HA and stir up Swampy

Mike
25 August 2005, 23:56
RustyI don't think any of our blood pressures could stand that again! LOL!
Rusty
We Band of Brothers!
DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member
"I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends."
----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836
"I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841
"for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.”
26 August 2005, 23:42
MacD37quote:
Originally posted by mrlexma:
Mike,
What turned you off?
The thumbhole stock?
The non-Weatherby caliber?
The trigger guard safety?
The made in Japan stigma?
All of the above?
mrlexma, there are only two good things about that rifle, #1 it is a 375 H&H, and #2 it was made in Japan rather than by Weatherby!

The only thing Wetherby stamps their name on that is worth beans is the O/U Jap made shotgun. and the rifle 500 posted was a waste of good stock wood, and a .375 barrel!

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