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Freebore excess in Weatherby rifles chambered in non-Weatherby rounds?
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<blockquote data-quote="Bart B" data-source="post: 106850" data-attributes="member: 5302"><p>I used to shoot with the man who worked for Roy Weatherby and designed and made the first Weatherby stocks. He was a good friend of Mr. Weatherby and often discussed what was needed for the Weatherby magnums do do what they did. Freeboring was needed to get the muzzle velocity up to what Roy wanted. My friend told Roy that accuracy may suffer a bit but Roy didn't care. Roy wasn't concerned about long range accuracy, just very fast bullets.</p><p></p><p>My friend was able to get Weatherby to make him two Mark V receivers without the magazine cutout; single-shot solid bottom ones he used for long range target shooting. They did pretty good after he lapped all 9 lugs into full contact And as far as anybody knows, they're the only two single-shot Mark V actions ever made.</p><p></p><p>Winchester made a couple dozen or so solid-bottom single-shot pre '64 Model 70 receivers, too. These, I've been told, were one reason Remington came out with their single-shot 40X.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bart B, post: 106850, member: 5302"] I used to shoot with the man who worked for Roy Weatherby and designed and made the first Weatherby stocks. He was a good friend of Mr. Weatherby and often discussed what was needed for the Weatherby magnums do do what they did. Freeboring was needed to get the muzzle velocity up to what Roy wanted. My friend told Roy that accuracy may suffer a bit but Roy didn't care. Roy wasn't concerned about long range accuracy, just very fast bullets. My friend was able to get Weatherby to make him two Mark V receivers without the magazine cutout; single-shot solid bottom ones he used for long range target shooting. They did pretty good after he lapped all 9 lugs into full contact And as far as anybody knows, they're the only two single-shot Mark V actions ever made. Winchester made a couple dozen or so solid-bottom single-shot pre '64 Model 70 receivers, too. These, I've been told, were one reason Remington came out with their single-shot 40X. [/QUOTE]
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