I guess I am kinda jaded. After owning a bunch of factory guns, I had to do every trick in the book to get them shooting. From changing out stocks, floating the barrel, glassbedding, and finally changing out the barrels, torquing the screws right to 34in/lbs. Now, I have been burnt so much, I got it in my head that you have to have a 1" barrel to get cloverleaf groups. But after talking to him for a while, he says, all that work is compensating for variations in metal in the barrel, thickness variation in the barrel, and just plain ole tolerances. He definately sold me but think he takes shooting and rifle building to the next level with all the vibration characteristics and all. Yea, I know people that has good luck out some lightweights, but most are dissatisfied with their groups. After going on my Newfoundland Moose trip, I will not be taking a 12 or 14 lb gun on a hunt like that again. So now I am on the light bandwagon. So what kind luck did you get out of that weatherby? He was also telling me about fluting and that it can hurt your accuracy due to the milling process. Unless you get all the flutes very simular. He said when heating up, if one side if more rigid than the other, that will cause accuacy problems.

I guess he assumed I lived in WV since I stopped by. I didn't tell him any different. I wonder why he won't sell directly?