Way back in my safe I had a 1956 Roy Weatherby Southgate FN Magnum .300 Weatherby I got , along with quite a few other Weatherbys , from Roy's old Gunsmith Joe Dutra who passed years ago. While he was alive I traded motor work and $ with him in the 80s for the ODD Weatherby that caught my fancy he had in his collection. He was a master gunsmith and one rifle he had intriqued me so I got it from him . It was an experimental "concept" new rifle design he did to show Roy in the late 1950s before Roy decided to go with the German Sauer Mark V , based on the commercial FN action Roy was using at the time. The stock was the big difference and this tiger striped maple one is spectacular but the oddest thing is it is finished one way on one side and completely different on the other. It did not have a butt pad but had a crude aluminum "try gun " telescopic butt plate to adj. LOP . It had Bhuleur mounts and rings and a Weatherby made in Germany 4x scope (Nickel) mounted. The Muzzle brake was a tank type and was cracked from firing (not a good design !) It has a "chrome bore" as written on barrel and appears like a very low round count . "
Teaser, working on it today