A tubby suburban dad watching hunting and adventure shows on TV and wondering could I do that? This is the chronicle of my adventures as I learn to learn to Forage, Hunt and Fish for food that has lived as I would wish to myself - Wild and Free.
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Monday, 19 April 2010
Vintage Firearms - The Rigby .275
As I started telling you in the last post I met up with another blogger last weekend: Bambi Basher is a massive military history and firearms buff who I'll be taking my deer management cert. with. He's recently become the latest delighted owner of a rifle made by Rigby of (first Dublin and then) London. I think of myself as the kind of bushwacker who likes his tools to be tools, but made in the 20s or 30s this one is pre Carbon and Fiberglas, so it's stocked in Walnut, and I was surprised how taken with it I was. Svelte in the hand, and older than both of us put together it's obviously been cared for, but bears the marks, scratches, and dings of many adventures. It's chambered in .275 Rigby (7x57mm Mauser) which many of the internets gun nuts seem to regard as a wonder hunting round having a slight edge over the more common .270. Here's a video from last weekend - much more to tell you about my weekend with the him but that'll have to wait.
Cheers
SBW
7 comments:
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Come on in the waters lovely
SBW
Nice rifle. Norcalcazadora's dad had a Krag that I got to shoot. We had a ranch (zoned for a minimum 20-acre lot). We had forty acres and a convenient hill to fire rounds into to the west of the house. I let off a couple of rounds from that Krag (I could have drilled a tunnel with it) and got phone calls from all over the valley. And this was in a marijuana growing neighborhood where everybody minded their own business. Ken
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ReplyDeleteAs ever you tell them so vividly
SBW
Love the 7x57. One of my life's regrets is missing out on a cherry Model 70 (a post-64 USRA XTR, but still a very nice gun) 7x57 a few years back. Sold out from under me...
ReplyDeleteI really have no need for a 7x57 with my 6.5s, but who said need ever entered into the decision-making process? If I ever find a nice one I'll snap it up.
Chad
ReplyDeleteAm I psychic or are you just predictable?
SBW
Nice!
ReplyDeleteWhat more can be said of a Rigby? Everything else would be superlative...
Cheers,
Mike
Mike
ReplyDeleteIndeed, and thanks for the mention
SBW
Sadly the Rigby in the clip is being sold this week, nice as it is I am in the business of selling Rifles. I already have its replacement in the cabinet unless of course that gets sold too!
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