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24 August 2005, 22:57
500grains
Mike378 - for you...


quote:
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
Tex21
No sir.


Jason

"Chance favors the prepared mind."
25 August 2005, 06:14
Mike378
No way at all Big Grin

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. Big Grin

Mike
25 August 2005, 06:38
Michael Robinson
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? Big Grin Big Grin Big Grin


Mike

Wilderness is my cathedral, and hunting is my prayer.
25 August 2005, 07:09
Mike378
MR

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 Big Grin

Mike
25 August 2005, 08:05
lawndart
Mike,
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
Mike378
lawndart

I bet if chambered in 378 or 460 and no muzzle brake that rifle at the very least would have "character building" recoil Big Grin

Mike
25 August 2005, 15:22
MLG
Thats gross - 500 gns where the heck did you drag that up from?
25 August 2005, 16:14
PC
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 Big Grin
25 August 2005, 16:51
Mike378
There are some interesting M70s available for viewing Big Grin I am not sure if Winchester would want to claim ownership. Big Grin

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

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
Rusty
Mike, 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
Mike378
Rusty,

It just goes to show the law of numbers work.

For all the years we have crossed swords we have hit agreement Big Grin

Mike
25 August 2005, 21:53
Mike378
Rusty,

If George comes on and agrees with me the forum is in deep shit Big Grin

Might have to return to HA and stir up Swampy Smiler

Mike
25 August 2005, 23:56
Rusty
I 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
MacD37
quote:
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? Big Grin Big Grin Big Grin


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!Big Grin


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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