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It would depend which model that you're looking at, and is it NIB....some NIB current models are well over $2K, and I'm not sure that I would buy one at those prices.

I've seen several great deals on LNIB, or safe queens that may or may not have been fired and believe that those buyers are all smiles.

The only things I haven't liked about my Mark V's were that two came wearing the factory plastic synthetic stocks. Those don't have much resale value, and my choices to replace were limited compared to other actions.

I haven't noticed the extra weight of my Mark V's since I've hunted with them from blinds. I really like the short throw bolt. They are very smooth to cycle and the accuracy at the range has been as Weatherby claims. They have all been very easy to scope and sight in, and by that I mean that the scope out of the box hasn't needed much if any windage adjustment.

If you were to apply enough freebore chamber on a 7mm Rem Mag and loaded ammo to Weatherby ammo pressures you’d get the same result. If you hand load by the book and SAAMI specs, which discounts the freebore chamber that allows greater pressures you’d get the same results. Most strive to achieve the least amount of freebore for greater accuracy in a std chamber using SAAMI COL. In doing so most use a 0.010”-0.020” bullet to lands distance. Wby uses a chamber that provides a much greater freebore depending on specific Wby cartridge, combined with their high pressure loaded ammo you get their advertised speeds. That was Roy’s secret sauce back in the 1940s and 1950s. He sold it for many years to the public. It’s just physics regarding stored pressure and release. They all work fine, but so does everything else.

I like my MKV 270 Wby but don't hunt with it much anymore...



130 TSX @ +/-3500 steep quartering away shot recovered under hide in front of off shoulder: