I haven't found wby stocks to be so special. I use to sell them, and i sent two guns back for poor stocks, NOT because of there looks, i'm talking so full of knots and poor grainning both of them had split. At that time wby only allowed less than $15.00 per Mark V for the stock blank!! There were more that i figured would come back but didn't, at least to me.

As for the nine locking lugs, unless they've been lapped almost always 4 or 5 (or less) are carrying the load, and the rest aren't even in full contact. Wby should be lapping EVERY action.

The only firearm i ever had fail in the bush was a wby. They at one time had a lathe cut in the bolt stop, and i shot a moose, when i pulled the bolt back it came right out of the gun!! The bolt stop had broken at the lathe cut. Glad it wasn't a brown bear!!

I had guy come in looking for a bolt, as he had his wby on his pack with the bolt open, when he got on top of the mountain, he no longer had a bolt!! (broken bolt stop) This problem was later fixed.

I was a member of a gun club that had a lot of members who were bench rest shoots. Every time a non Rem shooter came along with a wby, he soon learned that if he didn't have a Rem. he couldn't win, even in the "out of the box" stock rifle class. Every wby owner who wanted to compete owned a Rem 700 for bench rest!! (includeing me)

I NEVER called wby's junk, i'm just saying they are over priced, and i stand by that statement!!

Drilling Man