I just picked up a used Vangard this morning in .243 Win. and hopefully will be shooting it tomorrow. I didn't know they were 5+1 on capacity, which I like a lot. I also like the 24" barrel. The Bushnell Banner on it now will probably be switched out with a Nikon, we'll see what else will need to be changed after shooting.

Have you ever owned, shot, or taken advantage of their SUB moa warranty? I seriously doubt it by your reply. I am in the "gun bidnezz" now and have been for the past 25 years continuously. Their warranty is exactly as written. The first return is free and they shoot the gun, make adjustments if needed or replace it. When they return it it will have a target with the factory ammo used. If the customer has problems after that it is on the customer.

Huntwest. Nope never owned a SubMOA and most likely never will. It's a personal thing with me and anything that Weatherby sells. I don't NEED to own a Weatherby for any reason...unless I can get one so cheap it oughta be called stealing to use as Trade Bait.

After Roy died, and Jr took over the company, one of my best friends and that rarest of all things in the gun bidnizz...an honest competitor, Dudly Grounds, who had repped the Weatherby Line for 22 years & had never missed a quota, got screwed out of the line by a guy from Tyler Tx at that time, & LOL who has since dropped Weatherby some time ago in his journey to becoming a Major Player in the Rep bidnizz by the same kind of ?ethical business practices, and now lives in Nashville last I heard.

As you know, The Sporting Goods Rep bidnizz is a dog eat dog bidnizz & I understand that, since I spent 13 years in the gun bidnizz as a distributor for almost 7 years dealing with Reps of all kinds, and 6 years as a Stoeger Rgl Mgr, only to loose the line to Company Politics despite representing over 22% of the World SAKO sales as Salesman of the Year one year, placing Llama handguns in a 300 store chain where I could generate 5 times the volume of the previous years annual Llama sales & doubled Llama sales in my 5 state Territory outside of the chain store, and selling 500% of the Stoeger Publishing Co's total annual volume in an opening order, then got fired 2 hours later after Stoeger Inc accepted the Order so I would not get paid for it.

In Dec 1988, one of my customers, mebbe the 3rd largest S&W distributor in the US at the time, arranged for me to be offered the hottest selling handgun line in the US. A day later I turned Glock down & and 9 other related lines I had picked up in the first 6 hours after the initial Glock offer at the old Denver Wholesale Show, where I was intro'ing Bersa as a Consultant for George Sodini Jr & his Eagle Imports Company to the US Market.

I took Dudly into meet Gunther the next day and recommended him for the 5 state Territory Line, because I smelled the same ?? ethics at play in Georgia that I had just seen Dudly get screwed with by young Mr Weatherby, and had gotten screwed myself with at Stoeger...and have never looked back. As an old long departed uncle used to tell me who'd spent 50 years in the Womens Ready to Wear bidnizz as a Rep...it's a "bidnizz ladies" business...stay out of it unless your morals are the same....

I'm glad you believe in the Weatherby Warranty...Papa Nix in Lewisville did for 30 years and built a ethical business on Roy's Rifles, but Bill is in the Rep bidnizz now and last time I saw him he didn't have Weatherby...wonder why?
I don't believe in Weatherby, and won't ever have the opportunity to need the Warranty, and couldn't care less about it. JMHO & YMMV since you asked.
Ron