By Craig Nyhus, Lone Star Outdoor News
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Adam Weatherby left the Sheridan, Wyoming company headquarters to attend a field-to-table hunting event at the Guitar Ranches in West Texas.
Weatherby provided the rifles for the event.
“The hunters used the new Vanguard High Country in 6.5 Creedmore,” said Luke Thorkildsen, Weatherby’s marketing manager. “It has a painted stock, Cerakoted metal and suppressor threads.”
Weatherby, though, shot the Mark V, 6.5 WBY RPM.
“With ammo shortages, it was too hard to have enough ammo for everyone to shoot the RPM on the range,” Thorkildsen said. “Ammo availability is tricky now.”
He said the Mark V shoots with higher velocities, helping it kill game more ethically.
“It shoots real flat,” Thorkildsen said. “With a 140-grain bullet, it travels at 3,000-3,100 feet per second as compared with 2,700 with the Creedmore. Out to 300 yards, you don’t have to give it much thought.”
Weatherby took his deer and a hog.
“His buck went zero yards,” he said. “Mine went 20.”
Will there be any new rifles from Weatherby this winter?
Thorkildsen said new products from gun and ammo manufacturers will largely be pushed back to mid-2021, but they have plenty of new things in the works.
“It’s been an interesting year,” he said. “We have to fill backorders before introducing new stuff.”
