In those days, they would take you into the Weatherby warehouse deep in the facility to select the rifle you wanted. Pat’s answer was immediate: “Let’s go in the back and pick one out now,” he said. “If you see one that has particularly nice wood, let me know,” I said. I told him it had to be a left handed action (Dad was a southpaw), and I wanted a rifle with exceptional walnut.
I stopped in one day and mentioned to Pat, the sales guy I had come to know, that I wanted to buy a Weatherby in 7mm Weatherby Magnum for my Dad. Hunting trophies (including an enormous full body mount of a standing polar bear that must have been 10 feet tall), all kinds of shooting gear, beautiful Weatherby rifles…you get the idea. Weatherby had a retail sales outlet there, too. About 35 years ago I was an engineer working for Aerojet (we manufactured cluster bombs and artillery ammunition) and the Weatherby plant was just up the road from us in Southgate, California. It’s one of the great ones, and the story behind it goes like this. Note the left hand bolt and the exquisite walnut. Folks, check out this left hand 7mm Weatherby Mark V… A 7mm Mk V Weatherby.
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