Rifles Get Lighter; Online Gun Influencers; Midair Collision Lessons
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🗓️ 21 June 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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-- Weatherby introduces a stunning four-pound hunting rifle. CEO Adam Weatherby reveals how that came about.
-- Online gun and hunting content creator Who Tee Who shares which videos get folks riled up.
-- A survivor of a midair collision shares lessons which apply to defensive gun use.
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| 0:26.7 | All right, we're back with you. |
| 0:28.0 | You know, in the world of shooting, I like cool gear. |
| 0:31.2 | And sometimes you end up with these legacy companies that don't really evolve, and then you've got some other things that really move on |
| 0:39.4 | fast. And joining me right now is Adam Weatherby from obviously the Weatherby Firearms |
| 0:44.9 | Company. And Adam, you've been the CEO for, what, a decade or so now? |
| 0:49.2 | That's correct, Tom. Okay. So everybody knows Weatherby. You go all the way back to Roy Weatherby, your grandfather, |
| 0:55.8 | Ed Weatherby, your dad, and now you running it, another third-generation company in the fires business. |
| 1:02.2 | Yeah, it's pretty, pretty rare these days. We're in our 81st year. It was 1945. My grandfather |
| 1:06.7 | started this deal, and so to be here leading the company three generations later is |
| 1:12.0 | quite an honor to say the least. It's a legacy that it's, you know, my dad got to do it, my |
| 1:16.8 | granddad, and here I am all these years later. And yeah, it's, we're having a blast. It's hard |
| 1:22.6 | work every day, but we're having a blast. Well, there you go. I mean, I look at, you know, |
| 1:26.1 | Harnedy and Brownells and Hodgden. You got all these third-generation companies, |
| 1:31.8 | which frankly, they all tended to start right after World War II. And then it's just case of, |
| 1:37.9 | you know, will it hold on? Will the family be able to hold on to it? And I got to tell you, |
| 1:42.5 | I mean, and you know, I mean, I wrote the book about Weatherby, but that was like 40 years ago. And the Weatherby company |
| 1:50.3 | always made good rifles, but they were what they were. They were a little big, little heavy, |
| 1:57.2 | very showy, and they were perfect for the time. But what you have done with the company |
| 2:01.4 | and with the products over the last 10 years is amazing and propelling it into this new generation |
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