Have they been losing money on their flagship mark V 9 lug for over 60 years? I find that hard to believe. Another poster also said they were a commercial failure, and "they never caught on" but the company seems to have a higher profile than ever including their magnums
Weatherbys Mk Vs... thoughts?
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Have they been losing money on their flagship mark V 9 lug for over 60 years? I find that hard to believe. Another poster also said they were a commercial failure, and "they never caught on" but the company seems to have a higher profile than ever including their magnums
MkV probably have the highest profit margin, but by far the lowest sales in their line up, so yeah, if all they sold was overpriced MkV, tits up.
Hence the Vanguards and Turkish shotguns making up the vast majority of their sales keeping the doors open.
The flagship MkV definitely a commercial failure.
Try reading gun articles, you might learn something.
https://www.rifleshootermag.com/editorial/weatherby-remembering-70-years-traditions/83808
Half of the guns they sell are Turkish shotguns.
One of the best sellers is the Vanguard line.
Little bit of math, like barely any...we have 50% shotguns, close to 50% Vanguards, rest is MkV...they only sell 3 products. So MkV make up somewhere between 2% and 10% of Weatherby sales...and you don't think they would be tits up if that was the only line they sold? $2500 rifle that shoots $150/20 box of ammo...not very appealing to most people.
They really don't sell very many MkV, very niche market.
nowarningshot
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Ahhh.....akams razor. Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence.
It seems the wording and overreach has blown back in their faces. I expect that after the longgggg Christmas/New Years break their will be a walk back. It will be weeks out of the 24hr news cycle and have given the libranos a chance to bribe the opposition and natives. However, there is also a rumor of a spring election, and really what else could they use to campaign?
Let's hope anyway. Trulanders arrogance and physical need for a majority may be our only hope.
If the cons have half a brain (questionable) they will hammer the libs in a spring election for wasting so many millions of dollars on three elections with no change in results. This is the 12 gauges accidentally banned thing all over again, look at what happens when people who have never handled a gun write gun policy. Now several provinces are in open revolt, and no one has turned in their guns and there’s no real plan in action to get them to do so that doesn’t involve massive over reach. It’s only a matter of time before non gun owners realize what a boondoggle this is. People are smart enough to sus out that law abiding background checked gun owners are not responsible for gun violence. As it stands the best way to stop the handful of mass shootings we have had would be to ban Quebec residents from owning guns…
Btw that’s Hanlons razor. Occam’s is that the simplest solution is usually the true one. In this case that simple solution is that the legislators are ####ing idiots who want to ban whatever they think an assault rifle is because Americans use them to shoot each other because they’re a nation of violent morons. Not that there is a sinister cabal out to ban every gun in a country with hundreds of thousands of them in civilian hands unregistered, dangerous animals and a massive rural voting base
I’ve literally heard Adam Weatherby say in interviews that the MKV was never especially popular and the Turk guns and howas keep the company afloat and took it from boutique to big business
Btw that’s Hanlons razor. Occam’s is that the simplest solution is usually the true one. In this case that simple solution is that the legislators are ####ing idiots who want to ban whatever they think an assault rifle is because Americans use them to shoot each other because they’re a nation of violent morons. Not that there is a sinister cabal out to ban every gun in a country with hundreds of thousands of them in civilian hands unregistered, dangerous animals and a massive rural voting base
I’ve literally heard Adam Weatherby say in interviews that the MKV was never especially popular and the Turk guns and howas keep the company afloat and took it from boutique to big business
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"I’ve literally heard Adam Weatherby say in interviews that the MKV was never especially popular and the Turk guns and howas keep the company afloat and took it from boutique to big business "
Have to agree, Wby Mk V's were a gunsmith's special for years. It was a big step getting them commercially made from the modified Mausers and Enfields and Winchesters that had been used before, and when German labour was cheap they were a good deal (though still expensive for the average shooter). When the company expanded, it basically boiled down to sell more cheaper stuff, and get that economics of scale working for you. It is still a cool rifle however, and I wouldn't give up mine (or any of the others I have chambered in Wby cartridges) any time soon. - dan
Have to agree, Wby Mk V's were a gunsmith's special for years. It was a big step getting them commercially made from the modified Mausers and Enfields and Winchesters that had been used before, and when German labour was cheap they were a good deal (though still expensive for the average shooter). When the company expanded, it basically boiled down to sell more cheaper stuff, and get that economics of scale working for you. It is still a cool rifle however, and I wouldn't give up mine (or any of the others I have chambered in Wby cartridges) any time soon. - dan
Brutus
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They had some popularity thier lightweight line of bolt Weatherbys during oilpatch boom of 2013.
I did not hear anyone complain of thier rifles myself.
Smattering popularity amongst the senior rig hands.
Mind u these were the same folks buying 22 Hornet Anschutz and throwing away the once fired brass.
There's a really good podcast that covers the Weatherby story well, and a second episode that gets into the Mark V in detail as well as their other products. Listening to them, I learned there was a lot more tot heir bolts than just being 6 or 9 lug. I'd love to get one pending the outcome of all of the politics. I'd prefer a Mark V deluxe with iron sights in the unabtanium 460 Wby Mag. just a dream rifle for me. Overkill for anything I need but I wouldn't care. that would be my next dream gun depending on the outcome of all of the nonsense...
http://projectupland.com/project-upland-listen/the-gun-room-podcast/roy-weatherby-and-the-illustrious-mark-v-016-of-the-gun-room-podcast/
http://projectupland.com/project-upland-listen/the-gun-room-podcast/a-more-complete-look-at-weatherby-017-of-the-gun-room-podcast/
Image to drool at:
http://projectupland.com/project-upland-listen/the-gun-room-podcast/roy-weatherby-and-the-illustrious-mark-v-016-of-the-gun-room-podcast/
http://projectupland.com/project-upland-listen/the-gun-room-podcast/a-more-complete-look-at-weatherby-017-of-the-gun-room-podcast/
Image to drool at:
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There's a really good podcast that covers the Weatherby story well, and a second episode that gets into the Mark V in detail as well as their other products. Listening to them, I learned there was a lot more tot heir bolts than just being 6 or 9 lug. I'd love to get one pending the outcome of all of the politics. I'd prefer a Mark V deluxe with iron sights in the unabtanium 460 Wby Mag. just a dream rifle for me. Overkill for anything I need but I wouldn't care. that would be my next dream gun depending on the outcome of all of the nonsense...
http://projectupland.com/project-upland-listen/the-gun-room-podcast/roy-weatherby-and-the-illustrious-mark-v-016-of-the-gun-room-podcast/
http://projectupland.com/project-upland-listen/the-gun-room-podcast/a-more-complete-look-at-weatherby-017-of-the-gun-room-podcast/
Image to drool at:
Buy one anyway, and get the barrel stamped "10.6mm Short" - dan
Listen to this video (starting at about 1 minute, 10 sec) where the Ruger #1 will be prohibited ONLY if it is chambered in a cartridge that exceeds 10,000 joules of energy...
https://fb.watch/hoyEJBXAAg/?mibextid=NnVzG8
Very likely the same with the Weatherby Mark V
https://fb.watch/hoyEJBXAAg/?mibextid=NnVzG8
Very likely the same with the Weatherby Mark V
That video isn't the proposed law.
Yeah, its not like the Libs have stated one thing but done another. What is written in the law will become the law. All the babbling from the lying professional criminals will not change that. - dan
Brutus
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Sure that's what they advertise now.
But as soon as it passes into law, what are u gonna do when some Murray Smith clone declared all Mk Vs a variant?
Politicians lie every day.
A MK5 6 lug SA would make a BEAUTY 6 Creedmoor Rifle ! RJ
