The real thing, made in
London on the old patents, the old ways. I have owned one once, a ".275". So did Walter Dalrymple Maitland Bell, who shot many elephants with that "tiny", actually moderate, caliber. And Jim Corbett (man -eating tigers), and Eleanor O'Connor (mostly edible horned things).
They have a stock of older Rigby products, like these:
( Jonathan mutters something about it's being worth a duel to own them).
All the old records...
Jonathan harvests elk every year with the . 275 I used to shoot, and always remembers to provision us.
The sidelock are distinctive.
Father Bakewell preferred his .416 ""Rifle for Heavy Game." (This is a virtually identical one, not his), After a severe mauling by a sloth bear that was menacing "his" villagers, he was given one. His bear is the only one in Rowland Ward's top ten guided by "self".
Not everyone is pleeased.
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Thank God the sad era of the California "Rigby" is over. I would simply erase it from the records as a bad dream.
Oh, Glory!
Jim Cornelius
www.frontierpartisans.com
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