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85:, an American rifle, shotgun and cartridge manufacturing company founded 1945. Weatherby created an entire line of custom cartridges, and was one of the people responsible for the industry interest in high-speed cartridges. He created a custom rifle action to accommodate his high-pressure cartridges. 139:
Following Roy Weatherby's death, the Weatherby Foundation International (initially known as the Roy E. Weatherby Foundation) was established as a non-profit, tax-exempt Foundation to promote sporting hunting and contributing to wildlife conservation. It currently leads an initiative to foster the
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where he and his wife, Camilla, bought a Spanish style home located on 7672 California Street on the corner of Grand Avenue. Weatherby started manufacturing Weatherby Guns in his garage at the Huntington Park home.
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development of educational outdoor expositions, and as at 2007 has sponsored 78 events in 19 of the US states, with combined attendance of nearly 1 million. The Foundation annually sponsors the
132:, and very hard-hitting characteristics at long range. Among those who influenced his thinking and products was the English riflemaker and cartridge designer 278: 133: 161: 239: 120:
Weatherby came into the world of commercial cartridge and rifle making with a background of experimentation in cartridge
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Weatherby firearms are best known for their very high-powered rifle cartridges, all bearing the name
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and was determined to develop a range of sporting rifle cartridges that would produce very high
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Kansas
Newport Beach, California
Weatherby, Inc.
Huntington Park, California
Weatherby Magnum
.257 Weatherby Magnum
.378 Weatherby Magnum
.460 Weatherby Magnum
wildcatting
muzzle velocities
trajectories
David Lloyd
Weatherby Hunting and Conservation Award
"Roy E. Weatherby Sr., Firearms Innovator, 77"
"A Short History of Weatherby"
http://www.weatherby.com/company/history.html
http://www.weatherbyfoundation.org/
ISBN
978-0-917253-75-1
Categories
Firearm designers
1910 births
1988 deaths
People from Kansas
20th-century American inventors

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