Weatherby introduces the limited edition 250th Anniversary Commemorative Mark V rifle, celebrating American independence and the company’s heritage. Each unique rifle features a color case-hardened receiver, patriotic design details, and is chambered in the .257 Weatherby Magnum, showcasing craftsmanship and innovation rooted in tradition and sacrifice.
Over 80 years ago, a farm kid from Kansas named Roy Weatherby went west with little more than an idea and the conviction that it could be done better. No pedigree, no fortune. Just the freedom to try, to fail, and to try again. From a small California storefront, that freedom became a rifle, then a company, then a name carried by three generations of one American family.
It is the same freedom this country has carried for 250 years. The freedom that shaped a nation out of grit and sacrifice is the freedom that let one man build something lasting out of nothing. It still guides the family that builds Weatherby today, from the foot of the Bighorn Mountains in Sheridan, Wyoming.
This rifle honors both at once: a quarter-millennium of American independence, and the promise that made the company behind it possible. They were never really two stories.
A limited run of Mark V rifles, each a one-of-a-kind celebration of American craft.
Color Case-Hardened Receiver
Each receiver is individually finished, its mottled blues and straw-gold like no other. No two rifles are alike. Every one carries its own character and story.Patriotic Custom Checkering
Twenty-five stars on each side of the forend for the fifty states, thirteen flowing lines for the original colonies, and a grip pattern drawn from the flame of Liberty’s torch.Gold Filigree Floorplate
Intricate gold filigree frames a commemorative 250th Anniversary emblem, a refined collector’s mark over a traditional matte-blued finishChambered in the legendary .257 Weatherby Magnum.
A fitting tribute in more ways than one. A celebration of Weatherby heritage, American innovation, and 250 years of freedom, told in the smallest of details.The Receiver: Forged by Fire
The color comes from heat. Each receiver is color case-hardened, brought up to temperature in fire and quenched in a centuries-old process that hardens the steel and leaves behind a swirl of blues, golds, and grays no two pieces will ever share. It can’t be painted or copied; it’s earned in the furnace.Fitting, for a rifle that honors a nation forged the same way, through grit, determination, and sacrifice. It’s a reminder that the things worth keeping are tempered by fire.
The Stock: Nothing Held Back
Each stock begins as a single blank of exhibition-grade walnut, hand-selected for its figure, depth, and contrast, then shaped into a classic Monte Carlo profile and brought to life with a hand-rubbed oil finish.This rifle wears a cap of genuine ebony, set off by fine maple spacers, a combination Weatherby has never offered before. It would have been easier, and cheaper, to do less. We chose to do more.
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