Your kidding right?
From talking to 2 different gunshops and one of my best buddy's, who has had one, the Weatherby lites do not shoot as well as people thought they would. Actually, from all 3 sources the rifles tend to get traded in fairly often.
Well geez, if they don't shoot well I would be surprised as heck. After all, they use the same materials as their other rifles. Same machinery, etc. They just keep it as light as possible. Remember, this rifle is more geared toward the on-the-move hunter, not the "stay-where-you-are-at" hunter. Plus, it is not the ideal rifle for a sharpshooter. Just my opinion, but if all Ultra Lightweights shot like that, that rifle would not be selling too well, and they'd drop it all together.
Now to be fair, it is probably because they are a lite rifle and at least to me lite rifles are not as tight of shooters as a regular weight rifle is (at least on targets).
Where that would hold ground is in the department that such a light rifle would move much easier than a 7 1/2 lb counterweight, right? So the problem is more likely to lie with the shooter behind the 5 3/4 lb counterweight, not the gun. Also, the wind has a slightly more effect over a lighter rifle than a heavier one. Besides, in selecting any type of gun they all can be/sound pretty lousy, provided you read only the downsides and the bad experiences others have had with them. But there is always something that can be found wrong with anything. When looking to buy a car (or truck), why look at what it CAN do and what it has, instead of what it CAN'T do and what it doesn't have? But taking into consideration what you intend to do with it, you can make your decisions from there. Patriot
