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- Nov 28, 2022
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After recently stumbling on the Weatherby podcast and barely making it through 10 minutes of three grown men giggling about bullet speed like its still the 90's, I had to do some looking around the interwebs on the company and it all looks bleak. These guys were talking about how one of them shot a deer in the heart 3 times with a 6.5cm and it just stood there unaware so he wished he had his trusty 6.5-300 to do the job... WTF? Then they went on about the drop charts for the 6.5-300 and how its the best thing out there for 2,000y shooting, as if standard deviation/extreme spread along with the barrel heat for that insanely overbore round were not even a factor for ELR shooting. It's cringe-worthy listening to them go on about the "wallop effect" being necessary, no wonder some people come on this forum and can't believe for a second that a .223 can kill a measly deer.
Their social media gets absolutely berated (deserved) whenever they purposely modify a graph to make the WBY cartridges look superior, and they conveniently leave out ranges where they're surpassed by modern bullets that their cartridges can't accept. I get it, still gotta try... Hornady has done a spectacular job educating the masses on superior modern ballistics with high BC and moderate velocity.
You have to sell one of your organs to buy a box of Wby ammo regardless of caliber. A quick google search shows their revenue is only 1/3 of Christensen, and Christensen doesn't even make shotguns or ammo! Wby's most popular rifle (vanguard line) is made by Howa, and other companies are making equivalent premium rifles that actually chamber calibers that people want.
I don't dislike Weatherby as a company. I think they're cool for niche they fill and have a great history in American hunting culture, but they've gotta do something other than the RPM to gain some traction in the industry or else they're gonna have to sell out.
Their social media gets absolutely berated (deserved) whenever they purposely modify a graph to make the WBY cartridges look superior, and they conveniently leave out ranges where they're surpassed by modern bullets that their cartridges can't accept. I get it, still gotta try... Hornady has done a spectacular job educating the masses on superior modern ballistics with high BC and moderate velocity.
You have to sell one of your organs to buy a box of Wby ammo regardless of caliber. A quick google search shows their revenue is only 1/3 of Christensen, and Christensen doesn't even make shotguns or ammo! Wby's most popular rifle (vanguard line) is made by Howa, and other companies are making equivalent premium rifles that actually chamber calibers that people want.
I don't dislike Weatherby as a company. I think they're cool for niche they fill and have a great history in American hunting culture, but they've gotta do something other than the RPM to gain some traction in the industry or else they're gonna have to sell out.