New Antelope rifle arrived today !

[antelopedundee]

Not to hijack your thread with a beautiful looking rifle, but I got some new antelope medicine that I really didn't need.
6.5-06 AI, but it's almost never about need, but mostly about want.
The stock is an old H S Precision that I've had for close to 40 years. Had a Pachmayr Decelerator pad put on it. That made it a joy to shoot.

Fireformed a few nickel plated cases just because I could.

Good luck on your hunt. Those Weatherbys shoot so far you have to buy licenses for 3 states.

 

[Ranger Rick]

Now that's what I'm talkin' about! Bastone Walnut, maybe? Doesn't quit look like American Black Walnut and you don't usually find fiddle back like that in English Walnut. Bastone is a cross between Claro and English, grafted at the the roots. Claro has fiddle back sometimes........

Gorgeous walnut stock. Likely a high grade European walnut. Congratulations on your find.

 

[Plowboy85]

I'm not even a big wood fan on rifles but that sure is pretty sir.

 

[zog]

257 WB MK V Swaro 3-18x50 I do like pretty wood !

This is truly Weatherby. Quality and traditional beauty. I know Wby is trying to move away from this to compete with the modern trends but this is the image "Weatherby" conjurs up in most of our minds! NICE!!

 

[Hcollier]

257 WB MK V Swaro 3-18x50 I do like pretty wood !


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I too have always loved a wooden stock. Only bad part about that is the first time you bang it against something or something hits it. A ding. Makes you sick. After a few years the memories of where or what hunt you got the battle scars on your rifle are fond to remember. Beautiful rifle. Congrats. hope it gives you lots of fine trophies and good memories.

 

[budlight]

I was just looking at some loading data. 78 grains behind a 100 gr of h1000. Poor little 25-06 is like 58

 

[zog]

I too have always loved a wooden stock. Only bad part about that is the first time you bang it against something or something hits it. A ding. Makes you sick. After a few years the memories of where or what hunt you got the battle scars on your rifle are fond to remember. Beautiful rifle. Congrats. hope it gives you lots of fine trophies and good memories.

Ha exactly! One dent, stock is ruined! Ten dents, stock has "character"!

 

[Slibey]

Yup purty, Weatherby are nice

 

[antelopedundee]

I was just looking at some loading data. 78 grains behind a 100 gr of h1000. Poor little 25-06 is like 58

No wonder H1000 is so hard to get.

 

[Kpknifemaker]

I too have always loved a wooden stock. Only bad part about that is the first time you bang it against something or something hits it. A ding. Makes you sick. After a few years the memories of where or what hunt you got the battle scars on your rifle are fond to remember. Beautiful rifle. Congrats. hope it gives you lots of fine trophies and good memories.

I relate to the "scars" statement. Got a nice Sauer 202 that now has a "scar" from packing my wife's buck a few years ago. When I see it I don't think about it as a bad thing - just how excited she was to get that buck.

 

[Lenny Foffa]

Hi, As a happy owner of three Weatherby Mark V, Rifles and a Weatherby 22, and a Weatherby Regency 12 Ga O/U , I congratulate you on the purchase of a Very Fine Rifle, in a super hot, long range caliber. White tail, Mule deer , and Antelope are all shuddering right now!!!! I hope you hand load !!! Have fun with that beautiful Rifle !!
By the way , If you do load your own, Check out the NOSLER RELOADING MANUAL #6/ Pg. 220 ; 110 Grn Ballistic Tips, ( 64.0 Grns. IMR 4350 @ 3375 FPS ) or (68.5 Grns. H 4831SC @ 3386 FPS )

 

[antelopedundee]

I always admired the Weatherby rifles, esp. for the stocks, but didn't necessarily want to buy a Weatherby rifle to get one.

With the Richards stocks one can come kind of close. I need to get better pics sometime.

 

[AlphaDogs]

It is good to see beautiful wood still being used.
May I ask who was the craftsman that made it.

Weatherby.

 

[Ranger Rick]

I always admired the Weatherby rifles, esp. for the stocks, but didn't necessarily want to buy a Weatherby rifle to get one.

With the Richards stocks one can come kind of close. I need to get better pics sometime.

Looks like a beautiful black walnut stock Lefty