The trigger is a thinner profile and has non slip ribs. The trigger came from the factory breaking at about 4.5 pounds and with a little bit of take up, not bad for a factory setting, and we left it the way it was for this evaluation. The trigger is fully adjustable, but they say the sear engagement must be set by a Weatherby service facility. The bolt handle itself is a decent enough shape and easy to handle in most conditions. The bolts have some small flutes on them to help with preventing grit and grime problems and there are also three gas ports in case of a catastrophic failure. These are a traditional bolt action rifle and there are no real earth shattering new developments on these actions. But before we get to the performance, let us talk a little about the rifle itself. We expected to do a bit better than this with match ammo, even though we did not have a machine rest to lock it into. 79″ (wow, pretty good) that was fired with Weatherby 150gr soft point factory ammo. The group on the test target that accompanied this rifle measured. The barrels on these rifles are shorter and different contour than Howa’s own line of varmint rifles, and it is bedded in a stock not offered with any Howa.Īll Weatherby rifles are guaranteed to shoot sub 1.5″ groups at 100 yards and they ship with a test target. Howa makes some pretty good rifles (see review here) for a very reasonable price.
#Weatherby mark v synthetic stock series
Red is an interesting color on a rifle, but it is not too bad, though I may suggest getting the tan with black if you truly plan to use the rifle for tactical use.įor those of you that do not know this, the barreled actions that come on the Weatherby Vanguard series of rifles are produced by Howa over in Japan. One interesting thing of note is that the rifle we ordered and received from our distributor had the black stock with red spider webbing, but this color combo does not appear in the Weatherby online catalog. We have previously had very good experience with the Weatherby TRR and were hoping to have the same with this lower end rifle. 308 version for Sniper Central evaluation. So, having not even seen one in person, I went ahead and ordered up a. The retail price of these rifles should be just a little over $500, not bad at all for a synthetic stocked heavy barrel rifle. The rifle itself didn’t really strike me as anything really special, but the price did. One day I was looking through a dealer catalog and there it was. The Weatherby Vanguard Varmint Special kind of popped up out of no where, I had no advance knowledge that this rifle was coming out. Weight: 8.25 lbs (3.75 kg) no scope & empty.Stock: Injection-molded monte carlo style synthetic stock.Magazine: 5 round internal box magazine, hinged floorplate.
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