I would say that the vast majority of hunters/shooters have never even held a Weatherby, much less shot them. Thus they have no understanding of what a "Weatherby" really is. I am talking Weatherby's, not Vanguards. Price is a factor as well, as most hunters/shooters can't and won't justify spending $1-1.5K for a rifle.

My favorite Weatherby is my Mk-V .257 Wea. It has killed tons of game and critters. Never shot a single factory round in it, every round that has been fired in it has been my handloads. It was true legitimate.5 MOA shooter forabout the first 2.5-3Krounds, then accuracy started dropping off as the groups started opening up. However, it is not "out-of-the-box". I have pillar bedded, reworked the trigger, and floated the barrel.

Bottom line, a Weatherby rifleis, what it is. Yes, there are rifles out there that will out shoot them. Weatherby has never had a reputation as being the most accurate rifle "out-of the-box". There are 3 major reason why one buys a Weatherby rifle; 1. overall quality and looks(fit, finish, etc.), 2. the ballistic and terminal performance of a particularWeatherby round, 3.the Weatherby name

Weatherby has a 1.5MOA accuracy guarantee on their rifles, for 3 shots at 100yds. Most of the Waetherby's I have shot over the years, with few exceptions, would meet that.The few that wouldn't meet that, shot in the 2-2.5MOA range, which is still MOWT (minute-of-whitetail), but not what you expect from a $1.5K rifle.

With all that being said, go look on your local gun store shelves for a Remington 700, a Browning A-bolt, a Winchester 70, a Ruger M77, or a Savage, chambered in .240 Wea, .257 Wea, .270 Wea, .340 Wea, .378 Wea, or .460 Wea, and come back here and let us know how that particular rifle shoots. I beleive heII will be frozen before we get a report on that.