I posted about the 80 year Commemorative model that Weatherby is now making, but this rifle is a kind of classic in it's own right. It was built for the Bicentennial 1976 year by Roy Weatherby in South Gate, California. I graduated high school in 1976, which was also dubbed the Bicentennial Class.
As you may have noticed, I like Weatherby rifles. Roy Weatherby was instrumental in creating some of the greatest rifles of our day. Not the very best, but the most practical, and certainly affordable for many of us. This model has engraving and a plague on the butt stock, and the stock is drop dead gorgeous. This is the nicest rifle I own, of all of my rifles. My family owned a liquor store on the border of Lynwood and South Gate, and next door was an amazing retired Sheriff, who turned gunsmith, his name is Mike Bennett. Mike used to come in and buy beer with his handgun holstered, and of course all the LEO knew him, so nobody thought too much about it, other than, "hey, that guy has a gun!" This is after the Watt's riots.
If all of this is not enough, that's the same area that the Rodney King riots started as well.
Roy Weatherby was friends with Mike, and had a shop on Firestone, but it was rumored that Roy had a range under his house in South Gate.
Maybe Roy tuned this one up in his basement!
As you may have noticed, I like Weatherby rifles. Roy Weatherby was instrumental in creating some of the greatest rifles of our day. Not the very best, but the most practical, and certainly affordable for many of us. This model has engraving and a plague on the butt stock, and the stock is drop dead gorgeous. This is the nicest rifle I own, of all of my rifles. My family owned a liquor store on the border of Lynwood and South Gate, and next door was an amazing retired Sheriff, who turned gunsmith, his name is Mike Bennett. Mike used to come in and buy beer with his handgun holstered, and of course all the LEO knew him, so nobody thought too much about it, other than, "hey, that guy has a gun!" This is after the Watt's riots.
If all of this is not enough, that's the same area that the Rodney King riots started as well.
Roy Weatherby was friends with Mike, and had a shop on Firestone, but it was rumored that Roy had a range under his house in South Gate.
Maybe Roy tuned this one up in his basement!
