The book includes letters, notes, photos and, most notably, Roy Weatherby's journals from his first African safari in 1948. "Weatherby" is a intriguing look at not just a man and his guns, but at a different age and frame of mind. The great war was over; Americans and American arms had prevailed; and shooting and hunting were traditions to be proud of. In 1945, Roy Weatherby resigned his steady job to start a company dedicated to making a better mousetrap. He believed that the key to perfecting the hunting rifle was velocity: that a small fast bullet would produce quicker kills than a big slow bullet.

Weatherby opened a small sporting goods store, and would have done quite well concentrating on just that. Indeed, profits from the store were funneled into the struggling rifle enterprise. But the rifle business was more than simply a commercial enterprise: it was Roy Weatherby's dream. And he pursued that dream with ferocious devotion. "Weatherby" is the record of his travails and triumphs in getting his business off the ground.