You Asked For It: A Weatherby Historical Film
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- Опубліковано 17 лис 2020
- Roy Weatherby appears on the television series "You Asked For It", to talk about and demonstrate the power of his 300 Weatherby Magnum.
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"... most powerful rifle ever."
I dream of Weatherby.
How times have changed !
Now we use hearing protection.
Old Roy didn't even rest his rifles on sand bags.
Really enjoyed these old clips ~ thanks
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He did use hearing protection in this film. Look @3.11 and after when he is standing.
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Excellent blend of information. I love the safety talk at the end. Modern sportsman need to take note, education is the key to growing our wonderful shooting sports and conservation efforts.
Note the wood inlays in the fancy grade Weatherby's stock, plus a few other custom touches on the bolt, etc. Things that seem to be not available from the custom shop now.
Cool nostalgic video.
No hearing protection?
No wonder no one heard when I asked for a Vanguard ll in 9.3x62 mauser caliber rifle !
Lol, I'll second that request and raise the 7x57 Mauser as well
...won’t hear you until they come up with a .366 Weatherby magnum ;)
@@borkwoof696 I dont look for that too soon, with the 340wby mag and the 375 and the 378wby mag on the high side.
Weatherby is wearing ear plugs. You can see it in his right ear in the earlier @3.11 and also when he is standing.
That was cool...definately old school and thats a good thing
Love this film as much as my mark V german 300 magnum weatherby, its a beast but I love her.
A piece of history, pretty cool!!!
What a great Weapon in 270 an the great 300 mag.
I love the old , dramatic review. The music and voice is so 1950s . 👍🏻🇺🇸
Absolutely loved this video thank you so much for sharing I own a 257 Weatherby Magnum Absolutely love it
Weatherby developed together with some of the hunting friends of him some other project cartridge for Army experiements. The .300 Super was one of them , .30-378 it was called later on.
Interesting old video. It is a point of boastful local pride that I live only a few miles from where Roy Weatherby grew up in central Kansas and have known several people of his generation who grew up with him. Most, if not all of them have passed on now. One of those, a very good friend of mine, was a very successful local business man. About 1980 or so, when one of his employees was retiring, he wanted to give him something better than the usual gold watch etc. He made one phone call to Roy and voila, a brand new Mark V was shipped directly from the factory to a local gun store in time for the employees retirement celebration.
I'd like to own either a 270 Weatherby, which was Roy's first development or the 257. Both, like all Weatherby cartridges, are excellent. I refer to most of them as Roy Weatherby Meat Destroyers. When that show was filmed, the 300 Weatherby may have been the world's most powerful bolt action rifle, but I doubt that it had the energy or stopping power of the big 450's and larger double rifles used for dangerous African game. The bullets being used just weren't strong enough. Pure Weatherby marketing hype. Also pure BS when he said it would stop anything in its tracks and it didn't matter where you hit. The 300 Weatherby is just a super hot 300 H&H Magnum which is what Roy started with for the 270, the 300 and some others.
@Dave
Yes those things are hype and BS, but what is true is that the .300 Wby Mag was one of the greatest long range hunting cartridges ever developed. Sure, you can use the .30-378 nowadays, but the law of diminishing returns will apply, as barrel life is so dramatically reduced that it can make you wonder if it is actually worth it.
The .300 Wby was a visionary invention ahead of its time! Just like you described, but development technology was behind the Weatherby calibers & not just the .300. With the right bullet of appropriate construction, the big .300 is still a legendary monster; time tested and proven the world over.
As a kid I dreamed about owning one many nights. The dream of having one rivaled the thrill of Christmas. Eventually, my dream came true and I now own 4 of them. One thing that remains is the smile on my face that my wife will never understand.
@@douglasborgaro6801 I understand your youthful longings. No doubt the 300 Weatherby is a great long range hunting cartridge as long as "long range" is within ethical hunting shooting distance and not the ranges these wannabe snipers we have running around promoting using animals for target practice at ranges that require no hunting skills. The biggest problem that Roy created was those that believed the hype ended up wounding a lot of game with badly placed shots and never recovered a lot of them or found them too late and they were spoiled or coyotes and other predators and scavengers had done their jobs. I'll still take that 257 or 270 when someone gives me one just to say I own a Weatherby. I'm too old and too unsteady because of health issues to try any shot much past 200 yards now days even with a rest. I hope you're still out looking for the big one.
Yes, the big ones are the quest. I get the connection with Roy, but I don’t blame him for the irresponsible stupidity. It’s a big world with a lot of stupid.
In truth, I was a former 1000 yard competitor and I also used a 50 SASR for a number of long range pursuits. But advocating for long or extreme range harvesting of game is a horse of a different color in many cases. From the targets I have had with .300 Wby I was very pleased with the performance and accuracy, even in spite of windage.
I have a weatherby from South Gate California
Take good care of it.
It looks like a pre-Mark V rifle. If I'm not mistaken, the Weatherby had a Mauser action with jeweled extractor.
Great old clip. The 5G can shots were predictable.
The bullet-proof glass was compromised by the 30-06 before the 300Wby was fired. It would have been valid if there were two pieces of the glass instead of just the one.
The steel plates at our range have plenty of holes from 308 rounds so it'd depend on the bullet used in each rifle.
And for the record, I've cut trees down with an old 303Br Enfield many years ago. Much like the steel plate demo, it comes down to type of tree and type of bullet used.
Great video for historical value and a fantastic sales placement for Roy's 300 Magnum rifles and ammo but I'm afraid shot placement mattered back then and, amazingly, still matters today.
Good points. I also found it interesting how he emphasized the safety rules at the end while having his finger on the trigger. Another time is suppose...
@Paul
Many of the details you list are true and correct. Still, the .300 Wby Mag is a monster and one of the greatest long range cartridges ever developed. Roy was a great salesman! His invention was truly a mark of greatness. In fact, I’m sure you’ve heard but the mighty 300 Wby has taken trophies from every continent in the world.
He said you can hit the animal anywhere on its body …and one shot kill that’s crazy…. And not true lol…,
Love how at 2:45 he compliments by saying it ia powerful which is true but his is superior
Mark of a true gentleman and salesman all in one. In the same sentence he gives the foe of his cartridge a compliment which is in fact still a true statement, all the while making his cartridge look vastly superior at the same time. If the .30-06 is considered powerful and the .300 Wby Mag out preforms it, then therefor the .300 Wby Mag is by default the superior cartridge. Lots of power delivered by a few words. Simple sentences like that really exemplify the intellect of the man himself.
My 300 mk5 is beautiful. Complete with lasermark stock. 😍😍😍
Mutual of Omaha’s wild gunsmiths
The B.S rolled as much back then as today...lol
Absolutely! I guess you could just point the rifle in the general direction and the game would fall dead.
At the end of the video, after being asked about "safety", anyone else notice the finger on the trigger (with a "locked" bolt)?
Would put my Weatherby 300 mag to that test. I also have a 7/300 Weatherby mag that is a distance beast.
What kind of velocities are you getting with a 7/300?
Someone needs to send this to the Rust people.
Missed the .17 Remington @ 4020 fps.
Air rifles are on another video.
“You don’t need to hit the vitals. Anywhere in the body will kill with instant painless death” lol
What a salesman! lol
Imagine a 30-378 in the hands of roy
What calibers
Only problem I have with this was Roy's claim that his new 300 magnum made vital shot placement a thing of the past. "You can shoot an animal anywhere on the body, *once,* and it will cause instant, painless death."
That's not only total rubbish, but also very irresponsible & even dangerous.
I watched one of his hunting movies years ago, and he did not use his 300 on the Polar bear as I recall he used the 460, and took several shots to kill it , also if anyone knows the name of the movie, let me know as have never been able to find it,
after the shooting, he said thank you Mr. Weatherby. WHAT? I CAN'T HEAR YOU.
All that bling later became known as California Rifles.
Forgive me folks, I'm sure Roy is more qualified than I am but are we sure that the 300 Weatherby Magnum or even .340 Weatherby magnum can drop ANY animal in ONE shot no matter where you hit? I've seen footage of hunting elk, they're tough animals.
His statement was complete bullshit...
The .300 Weatherby is a very good cartridge, but its forte is soft skinned game in open country, not thick skinned dangerous game like cape buffalo, elephant, and hippos. There was no need for Roy to make up these things about it:
Host: "I heard that your plant outfits most of the safaris in the world."
Roy: "Yes." Really? So professional hunters preferred Weatherby over Holland and Holland, Rigby, Mauser, Brno, and even Winchester? Plus, it has been widely accepted for decades that the .375 Holland and Holland Magnum (introduced in 1912) in a Mauser type bolt action is the best all around rifle for hunting in Africa.
Roy: "it's the best friend you could ever have if an animal decides to charge you." So why do professional hunters use so many big bore double rifles and bolt actions for dangerous game?
Roy: "There's not an animal on the face of the earth that this won't stop with one shot." It probably could, but that doesn't mean that it would. An elephant or cape buffalo would would have to be hit in the brain with a solid bullet. Plus, .30 bullets are rather light for the job. (Please don't tell me about Karamojo Bell using a 7x57 to kill elephants for the ivory trade. I already know about him; he was exceptional).
Host: "Of course that depends on your aim."
Roy: "No, not anymore. Because with a rifle of this velocity it's not necessary to hit a vital spot. A hit anywhere in the body will cause instant death." In his book, DEATH in the LONG GRASS Peter Hathaway Capstick writes about a client who put multiple bullets into a cape buffalo with a .460 Weatherby magnum before it went down. The .460 Weatherby is more powerful than the .300 Weatherby featured in this infomercial.
All true. Roy was quite a salesman who wasn't afraid to hype his products. He did not need to exaggerate so much; his rifles were very good. But the remark about instant, painless death was so over-the-top as to be ridiculous. Plus, that tree would not have been blow apart like that from a single shot. It would have been penetrated, yes, but many rifles could have penetrated it as well.
Weatherby was also very big on ostentatious ornamentation such as ebony inlays, radical cheekpieces, engraving, etc. They were very beautiful pieces of craftsmanship.
Poor Roy, he must've been deaf
He could answer any question, no matter how difficult, the same:
"What?"
So it's exaggeration and ad-speak; can't you detractors just enjoy it for it's charm and historical value instead of applying the litmus test of *literalism* to it?! If you're going to hold every ad to that test, you'll be busy sitting at your PC all day, every day, forever. The Weatherby has far superior ballistics on a comparative basis, period. If you reject that factual premise, post laudatory remarks for the Springfield 30.06 on other pages.
I agree that the Weatherby .300 magnum has superior ballistics in comparison to the .30-06. The problem is that what Roy Weatherby said about an instant kill with a hit anywhere in the body is not an exaggeration; it's a lie. He also says something to the effect of the .300 Weatherby being the best rifle for stopping dangerous game, and that most safaris were using Weatherby rifles. Those are two more exaggerations. It was very disappointing for me to hear Roy talking like this. There's nothing charming about it.
At 0:48 the host violates the gun safety lesson at the end of the film...
I noticed Roy was very quick to get the rifle out of his hands. The interviewer knew nothing about safe gun handling.
Anywhere in the body. Lol.. uh huh
I also found that a little ridiculous
It’s ok. Save your money and eventually, you’ll be able to afford something other than a $300 rifle.
Craig- I’ve hunted with a 300 WBY for years and the claims Mr . Weatherby made are false, shot placement is still critical. It’s funny the kind of marketing that went on then and still.
@@warren3665 Reloading I get as fast or sometimes faster with my 300 win mag, than I can get with my 300 wyb, same barrel length , this is using the hot old listing from the 60's , and you are correct his claim is ridiculous , they will not 100% drop a deer in it's tracks every time even with a good hit
lmfao there is no way that tree broke like that from a single shot, Not even a 50 cal ball would do that. I would bevie a 20mm.
It won't hold a candle against todays 6.5 creedmoor !! 😄😄
The 300 Weatherby Magnum would be like a great white shark compared to a crappie 6.5 creedmore!
@@bobparvin9773 I would agree with you there.
@@bobparvin9773 or maybe you didn't catch my sarcasm in the original comment on the creedmoor.
You're full of it.
I'm sorry. Didn't catch your sarcasm. I'm not up on my emojis.
That was about ignorant to compare a 30-06 to a 300 MAGNUM
"Anyplace in the body will produce instant, painless death". How many do you suppose actually believed that? How many wounded animals do you suppose were caused by people who believed that? If this 300 weatherby was as stated, what destructive firepower we have today in the 300 RUM, 30-378 Weatherby, 338-378, 378 weatherby, etc. Quite a propaganda advertisement.
We cannot confirm nor deny the accuracy of this statement. But we can confirm the accuracy of our rifles, sub moa at 100 yards.
@@weatherby well, i owned two of your rifles, a 270 that I had to send back for work and even after you worked on it, it barely made the moa guarantee. The second was a 257 weatherby magnum. It was a bit inconsistent, sometimes shooting .6 moa, other times a bit over moa. I wasn't all that excited about the 270 and it got traded off. I did like the 257 weatherby. My comment was just remarking on the statement made in the old video about how you could hit the animal anywhere with the 300 magnum and kill it. You and I both know that is not true, it is just marketing hype of the times. I would have to go back and check again, but I seem to remember reference to the 300 mag being able to stop any animal in its tracks, including an elephant. Yes, that is true with a proper bullet and precise placement, it has already been done with cartridges as small as the 6.5x54, but no one would say any 300 mag was an appropriate hunting rifle for elephant or even cape buffalo, at least not recommend it for such use. And I am a fan of weatherby rifles and cartridges, particularly the 338-378, 340, 30-378, 300, and 257. I was just commenting on the marketing hype from past years.
@@fedup3582 We know how outrageous the statement is and we're of course not saying we agree with it. We're just having a bit of fun
@@weatherby is this a real video of the real Roy weatherby?
@@adamshaw8214 Yes it is!
300 Remington ultra mag. Beats 300 weatherby mag.
30-378 wby is the fastest most powerful 30 cal on the planet!
When Roy Weatherby broke out the 300 Wby mag it was in response to the 300 H&H mag, which it easily surpassed. In fact, you could send your 300 H&H in to the Weatherby factory and have it rechambered to Roy's 300wby.
Any pre-64 model 70 Winchester rifles that are chambered in 300 wby mag have been rechambered from 300 H&H. At that time 300H&H was the only cartridge that had an action long enough to accommodate the length of Roy's hot new
"300 magnum"!
If you find any inaccuracies in my information, please advise.
I'm always eager to learn too! 🤔
@@Drivapete yes agreed. But 300 rum beat 300 weatherby mag.
@@clintjohnson7023 it does at that, by very little. In some instances less than 100 fps, but at a higher cost in powder, brass and recoil, not to also mention throat erosion and barrel burning.
@@Drivapete true
But nobody gives a shit about the 300 RUM.
Is it just me @3:11 does he have the scar over his right eye from the good old Weatherby scope bite. I like how they cut the guns recoil out from the old film. Get yours now!!!! We bring you the!!!!!>>>>>>>>>>>>:0>>>> "RETINA DETACHER 5000".
only thing i didnt agree with ROY in his talk, was tht he misleaded many HUNTERS in promising instant death on the game even if u didnt hit any vital organs, and tht to me IS A VERY UNETHICAL AND MORALLY WRONG STATEMENT TO GIVE POTENTIAL BUYERS, it seems ROY himself had alot to prove in selling his new wonder rifle, and he also managed to get it RIGHT when he, HIMSELF DID THE DEMONSTRATION/JOB as seen here naturally, his loads at tht time were really, really hot too ,far hotter than todays fabriq standardi suggest!! ROY WEATHERBY was a great salesman and undoubtedly a very skillfull hunter....
Yes he was! I enjoyed the film even if he did get carried away with outlandish claims at times. I was surprised that he didn't say you could shoot it at the moon and raise a dust cloud!