Firearms cannot be returned to MidwayUSA please contact the manufacturer for warranty claims. Shipping charges for firearms are calculated separately from other products on your order and will incur a separate Per Order charge. The Supplier determines shipping methods for firearms which ship from a Supplier. If your order does not contain a handgun which ships from MidwayUSA, any shotguns, rifles, actions or receivers shipping from MidwayUSA will ship via UPS Ground. If your order contains a handgun which ships from MidwayUSA, the handgun, and any additional firearms shipping from MidwayUSA on the same order, must ship Second Day Air. All firearms must ship to a valid FFL Dealer and cannot be changed or cancelled after they are placed. Turkey keeps promising to be the new Japan, and with this gun it may very well have taken one more step toward that goal.You must be 18 to purchase rifles or shotguns and 21 to purchase handguns, actions or receivers. Once that’s done, this may prove to be an excellent, good-looking value in an O/U, as the list price is $1099. Weatherby assures me they are aware of the problem, and that they have plans to put the forend on a diet. In fact, it looks about like the belly of a big largemouth bass and the effect on the gun’s otherwise pleasing lines is jarring. As I said, the stock has the same graceful Prince-of-Wales lines of the SKBs, but the forend, unfortunately, is not so slim. Metal surfaces are a deep, shiny black and unadorned except for “Weatherby” in gold letters on the receiver. The monoblock has been jeweled, which is a classy touch.
The stock is fairly plain walnut, wearing a soft, sporting clays style pad with a hard insert at the heel. The Orion is nicely finished if you like glossy guns, and if you don’t like glossy guns, why are you looking at Weatherbys in the first place? They’ve always been glossy. Beretta has made several zillion O/Us of this design and it’s extremely durable and popular all over the world. In English, that means it is a low-profile design that keeps the receiver trim, and the gun should be very strong. The action is very much like a Beretta 680-series O/U, with two pins in the breech face locking into recesses mid-way up the monoblock. It’s Turkish-made, and, while its lines (at least from the receiver back, more on this in a bit) mimic the receiver and the Prince of Wales grip of the SKBs, it’s a completely different gun. Good news is, it seems like a pretty good gun at an attractive price point. So, it’s not an SKB or even a copy of an SKB. The gun arrived this spring and I’ve had a chance to shoot it some. I asked Weatherby’s Tim Frampton to send me one and went rushing off to my 11 o’clock. Could Weatherby have resurrected the SKB? I didn’t have time to look into it. The SKBs, imported by Ithaca in the 60s and 70s, and by SKB and Weatherby later on, were excellent guns and I miss them.
At first blush, it’s a ringer for the sadly discontinued Orions made by SKB, the Japanese maker that closed its doors a few years ago. The gun that caught my eye was the new Weatherby Orion O/U. I was racewalking down the aisles of SHOT Show trying to make a meeting on time when I glanced into the Weatherby booth and stopped dead.
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