Ep. 433 | New for 2026 with Weatherby

Vortex Nation Podcast

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🗓️ 16 February 2026

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Adam Weatherby, Weatherby CEO, and Luke Thorkildsen, Weatherby COO, drop by Vortex for an awesome conversation that traverses the company’s history, ethos, new for 2026 products, and more. Tune in for a fun and informative podcast that may have you buying a new ultralight rifle.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vortex Nation podcast, brought to you by lovers of hunting, shooting, public lands, the Second Amendment, and good food.
0:17.8	What is up, everybody, Mr. Ryan Muckinhern, to my right, and special in-house guests.
0:23.6	We have Mr. Adam Weatherby, CEO of Weatherby, and Mr. Luke Torkelson, C-O-O-O of Weatherby.
0:32.7	Ryan, we're in the C-suite today.
0:34.4	What sweet are we in?
0:36.5	What sweet do we live in? Z?
0:39.3	I want to see. What comes after Z? It's more of a number. Double A. I'm feeling more like a number.
0:44.2	Okay. Yeah. Yeah. We can figure that out later. Seven.
0:47.6	gonna talk about today and I'm super pumped about. I love the number seven. Uh, we're to talk about the, you know, the history of
0:54.2	Weatherby. We're going to talk about, you know, stuff old, some new stuff. If you're watching on
0:59.8	YouTube, some of that is on the table right now. And speaking of history, guys, we got a lot to
1:06.1	talk about. We're talking about 80 years. You guys are celebrating your 80th anniversary. You got some cool stuff
1:11.8	going on with that as well. But just an iconic company with a, you know, a storied past and
1:19.2	a bright future. So we're just excited to have you guys here. Thanks for having us. Yeah,
1:23.3	cool to finally be on here. So yeah, looking forward to this. Like you said, 80 years and like what, an hour or less or something, this should be easy.
1:29.6	Yeah.
1:29.9	We got this. Yeah, we got this. Talk fast. Yeah. In the beginning. Yeah. It all started. Well, I mean, hey, you know, like, number one, welcome to Vortex. It's awesome having you guys out here to visit. Incredible facility. Thank you for having us.
1:42.5	Oh, man.
1:42.9	No.
1:43.8	It's all the thank you as are, and we love getting guests out here and showing. Incredible facility. Thank you for having us. Oh man. No. We're uh, it's all the,
1:44.7	all the thank you as our end. We love, we love getting guests out here and showing you guys around. And, uh, and, uh, let's, let's talk about Weatherby though. I mean, Adam, you've been associated with the company since birth. Yes. Uh, but, uh, let's, let's take this back to the beginning you bet man yeah i wasn't around 80 years ago
2:04.7	but my grandpa was he was yeah he was born 1910 uh passed away in 88 um but uh yeah was a poor
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