Weatherby SA-08
Weatherby has a long history of working with overseas vendors who are able to meet the high standards of the company's brand. At first look, these new Turkish-made autoloaders seem to be worthy of the Weatherby name. Just before the show I had the chance to run a few boxes of shells through both the wood-stocked 12 and synthetic 20 gauge SA-08 Upland guns. I found both to be soft-shooting and sure-pointing. Both guns are slim and quite light, with the 12 weighing around 6 ¿¿ pounds and the 20 scaling well under 6. Each gun comes with two pistons, one for heavy loads and another for light loads. I had no failures to function with either gun new out of the box.