Roy Edward Weatherby [1] (4 September 1910 – 4 April 1988), [2] was the founder and owner of Weatherby, Inc., 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.

Jul 1, 2011 · Weatherby’s marketing genius found him dealing with the upper echelon of the firearms industry, the world’s most noted shooters and hunters, and numerous celebrities.

Weatherby, Inc. is an American gun manufacturer founded in 1945 by Roy Weatherby. The company is best known for its high-powered magnum cartridges, such as the .257 Weatherby Magnum , .270 Weatherby Magnum , .300 Weatherby Magnum , .340 Weatherby Magnum and the .460 Weatherby Magnum .

Mar 18, 2015 · When his wife got $21,000 from the sale of her family’s Kansas farm, Roy Weatherby enjoyed a reprieve. Then in December 1946, an automobile crash put him on crutches. But a Weatherby rifle on the cover of The American Rifleman buoyed his spirits.

Roy Weatherby died in 1988, nearly 45 years after he began his simple quest to find a more effective way to take an animal. Across those four decades, he forever changed the way we look at and judge firearm performance.

May 23, 2016 · Roy Weatherby believed in velocity and his theory of hydrostatic shock that it conveyed. He also wanted his rifles to look different, like "tomorrow's rifles." Characteristic and distinctive were his Monte Carlo comb and squared forend with a reverse slant at the tip.

Jun 10, 2019 · Roy E. Weatherby was 19 years old when that devastating event came upon this country. This Kansas farm boy married a Kansas farm girl five years later. Farming on the central and southern...

History of Weatherby Firearms. As a young man, in the late 1940's, Roy Weatherby developed an insatiable interest in ballistics and rifle performance. At a time when many firearms "experts" were promoting large bullets traveling at slow speeds, Roy was experimenting with lighter weight bullets traveling at extremely high velocities.

Apr 8, 1988 · Roy Weatherby, who attracted fame and earned a fortune by creating the high-velocity weaponry that bears his name, died Tuesday after heart surgery at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center. He was...

Mar 1, 2019 · When Weatherby enthusiasts asked for a fast-pointing, smooth-swinging shotgun, Roy delivered with the first Weatherby over/under. Pumps and semi-automatics would soon follow, and today Weatherby shotguns are still revered for their dependability, fit and balance.