I didn't see the post about the S2 with the melted stock, do you have a link to it?  If this is the new level of quality coming from Weatherby I'd say the value of the old ones is definitely going to go up and it's time to start buying as many as you can. 

As much as I love buying a brand new gun sadly I'm with you in that I'll be looking for gently used rifles since I can't get what I want.  I never thought in a million years it'd come to this with Weatherby but unfortunately that seems to be the case. 

I'm old school in lots of ways, it's the way I was raised and am happy and proud of that fact.  Those old timers didn't forgive and forget, they remembered and remembered for their entire lives.  They didn't have hurt feeling and weren't offended by crap and thank God for that.  When there was a problem they got off their asses and solved it.  When they named that generation the Greatest Generation they hit the nail right on the head.  Imagine what the world would be like if these candy asses had to fight World War 1 or 2, they'd be sitting in a corner sucking their thumbs and crying for their Mommies.  President Trump has the same logic, you screw with us we're going to do something about it.  I love the fact that he told Iran if you retaliate we have 52 targets picked out, one for every hostage taken back in 1979, and will destroy them.  Obviously he's also old school and like President Regan.  Back in President Regan's day we didn't have the crap going on then that we do today.  The problem today is kids are being brainwashed by Commie teachers, Democrats are power hungry and want to control everything we say, do, and think, and the news media is nothing more than a puppet to the Democrats.  These idiots want to take our gun and think we're just going to give them up and all the police are going to go door to door to collect them but there's one problem, it's not going to happen.  I commend President Trump for doing the right thing in killing a bad guy who wants to destroy us and doing his best to keep our nation and citizens safe. 

I'm willing to bet the guy who came up with the saying, "Life's too short to hunt with an ugly rifle" came up with it because of the elpastic stocked rifles. 

Sorry for your loss and I commend you for watching out for her but I'm not surprised in the least you did because you're a good guy and that's your way.  I bet that Preacher thought he was going to meet God the day you confronted him and he learned a good lesson for sure. 

As Bret has stated, in this new plastic age of firearms, other than the high cost of Quality, there will be nothing to distinguish Weatherby from any other mfg.
   There are thousands of shooters/hunters/ collectors that still imagine owning a beautiful wood stocked rifle that stands as a testament to the vintage rifles of an era past, full of history, imagination, and the pride that lifts a persons spirit every time the rifle is looked at. It's a Tragedy.
 

I couldn't have said it any better.  When it comes to wood stocks you can have a million and there isn't two the same, each has it's own beauty and character.  You can't say that with the plastic stocks, if you have a million of them you have a million that are the same.

That's a beautiful rifle, what a Weatherby should look like.  There's no such thing as a rifle that's too beautiful to shoot or hunt with, use it don't abuse it and it'll be pretty forever.

Thank you for sharing that.  The best part of that article for me was when they asked if we can wait for a blue one, my answer to that is probably not but that just give me a reason to have two.