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Article: Weatherby comes home.(Company Profile)
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- Field & Stream (West ed.)
- Article date:
- July 1, 1995
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1995 Bonnier Corporation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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After thirty-seven years, "Made in U.S.A." is again being stamped on the rifles that made "magnum" mean something.
Fifty years ago, a Kansan who was doing very well as a telephone-company salesman quit his job and moved to Southgate, California, where he made far less money building rifles in his garage. The reason was simple - he did not love telephones and he did love rifles.
What took shape in his workshop was a form of heresy; his rifles did not look like rifles were supposed to look. They were chambered for strangely shaped cartridges that developed unheard - of velocities. The guns were labeled garish; the cartridges were jeered at. But the man from ...