If I had a 300 Weatherby, I'd want somebody else to sight it in for me too.
I hear that!
Dreamed of having a Weatherby Mark V as a kid, and of course it would have to be the .300! Read all the articles in the magazines, it would be the ultimate!
Never got one, the dream faded...grew up a bit..
In the early 80s a gal I worked with asked me to check out (and clean) her dad's guns, which had just been sitting, "gathering dust" for some years since he passed. Said I could shoot them, for my trouble.
One of them was a .300 Weatherby Mark V Custom. Beautiful thing, hand carved oak leaves instead of the basketweave checkering (this was decades before the Lazermark stock), had his name engraved on the triggerguard, inlayed with gold. Weatherby scope. (drool!!!)
She tells me this was her Dad's caribou rifle, opens a cupboard full of boxes of Weatherby ammo, and hands me a couple, smiling.."have fun!"
Then she told me about the time her Dad took that gun deer hunting. He came home with a deer, a cut and a big bruise. Seems the deer jumped out of brush about 30 yds in front of him, and he snap shot it.
So, I was more than a bit ...cautious when I shot it. Between the power of the recoil and the stock design, this is NOT a gun to shoot...unprepared.
Convinced me I really don't need a .300 Wby, Mk V though they sure a pretty. I've since worked up to heavy .45-70s and I have a .458 Win Mag. That old Weatherby still has pride of place in my memory as something to be very respectful of.
The term "Weatherby eyebrow" isn't just a joke. Eyebrows bleed, a lot!