Mention of Weatherby always gets my attention because the pictures of fantastic Weatherby rifles in hunting magazines were the subjects of my young boyhood daydreams. Which is why my most memorable adventure of those times was when I was a Jr. member of local rod & gun club and had wrangled permission to go with some adult members to a NRA convention held in Washington, an all-day trip from rural southwestern Va, to DC. We left before daylight and came home well after dark, and my folks were much relieved by my safe return as they were as mistrustful of Wash. DC, then as we are now. The gun exhibits were my concept of what heaven must look like, with the high-point of the trip was meeting Roy Weatherby in person, which was far more awesome than meeting any Hollywood celebrity. I bent is ear for a while and told him a .257 Wby. would be my choice for long shots at groundhogs. He was polite and even seemed impressed by my knowledge of ballistics and gave me his picture and a Wby catalog. I still have the catalog and his picture hangs in my gun room. I met Roy again at a trade show some 30 years later and told him how much meeting him had meant to me and how a fancy Weatherby .257 Mag was a boyhood dream yet to be fulfilled. So right there, we sat down together and he helped me order the rifle now stands in a rack close to the picture he gave me decades ago..
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