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After reading and doing a search on Weatherby's there seems to be a problem with some of the safeties.
What is done to improve them?
Can a Weatherby bolt be improve with a Sako type of extractor?
 
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After reading and doing a search on Weatherby's there seems to be a problem with some of the safeties.
What is done to improve them?
Can a Weatherby bolt be improve with a Sako type of extractor?

I don't know anything about Weatherby's safety, but the Mark V's extractor looks just like the one on my Sako (75).

[ 02-12-2003, 18:36: Message edited by: ksduckhunter ]
 
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Dave---

I'm usually notified of any safety related problems. I haven't heard a word. What's your source?

The Weatherby already HAS a Sako-style extractor.
 
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Gentlemen,

We had problems with Weatherby Mk V safeties years ago, with two rifles chambered for the 300 Weatherby magnum.

It was sometimes in the seventies, and I remember very well what was happening.

If you chamber a round, and put the dafety on, sometimes the rifle will fire as you take the safety off. It was quite unnerving when it happened. In fact, one of those rifles was my father's, and when this happened to him a couple of times, he did not want it any more.

He gave it to me and I gave him a Ruger 77 7mm Remington magnum. Which he was very happy with.

This happened on two identical rifles which we bought through England.

We sent them back, and they came working fine.
 
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Saeed---

I'd bet green dollars those guns had their triggers "adjusted" by somebody that didn't recognize an override sear-type trigger. I've seen that before.

Many people still think to make a trigger lighter/better/smoother the sear is polished. It's untrue and causes the fault you saw in the Mk-Vs.
 
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Jack,

You might be right. We got the rifles through Holland & Holland, and they were supposed to have been "accurized".

I have never seen the same thing happen since with any of the Mk V rifles we had through her, and we've had quite a number of them.
 
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JBelk, that was the problem I had read of that Saeed has posted ,the Weatherby I have was given to me it was built when ? I'm not sure but is the left hand MK-5 from Japan,wasn't sure if I should be looking for an update or repair on it,after reading all the post on the remington extractors didn't know weather or not the weatherby fell in to the same group,
Looking at my trigger it does appear to have soome type of shoe on the trigger,but not like the ones we used to put on the wheel guns for target work.

[ 02-12-2003, 22:44: Message edited by: Dave James ]
 
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