I have all the films and i have 5 of his books , and the thing i wondered on is tha .373 he used after the buffalo and others , that lokked like a Zastava custom mauser if iam not wrong, but the Musgrave was a fine rifle that he had, and is Musgrave operating yet?

Do anyone know how much his rifle sold for on the S.C.I. auction a few years ago?

How has the Winchester sivertip round worked out for you guys, since he used them very much and by careful prying of the silvertip away, it was a fine leopard bullet that gave instant expansion.

Hi mr rigby

I do not know what rifle capstick used, but can tell you that Musgrave (the division of Denel) closed shop in about 1996/7. The "original" Musgrave (in later years Ben Musgrave and son), closed last year, after Ben died, and his son could not continue due to licencing problems.

I know exactly the mauser rifle you speaking of.....and I thought it looked impressive....the barrel was very long IIRC.
I've always wondered where it went and what it actually was....I was somehow under the impression it was a Whitworth.

He also had a pre-64 M-70 in .375 H&H and that rifle was a gift to him by Dean Witter IIRC...that rifle had a very unique history to it as well.....where is that one I wonder?

it was the one that was made in 42/42 ,one of the few under the war, and the one who had it gave it to african ph, but what he got back was a bill for customs and so ,so he kept it , and that was a fine rifle but the Musgrave thats a nice custom piece, to bad they dont are in business anymore

I dont know which rifle , it was maybe a double rifle?But i think his home was burglerized and he lost a few favorites.anyone ever hear this one?I think it was/happened at his home in florida,USA.?Surely someone knows this story.I wonder how many rifles & calibers he used thru the years?Capstick has always been one of my favorites for sure!Good post!

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I dont know which rifle , it was maybe a double rifle?

Capstick owned a Champlin-Thumbhorst 470NE double and that was among the rifles stolen from his Florida home.

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Alf,
As always you have the world's most impressive array of Mausers...

However it was my memory that Capstick's 375 had a post war FN style of shroud and not the M-98 style pictured in these rifles.

Anyone got comments?

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Nice rifles and interesting readings.

BTW - there was another South African rifle manufacturer, Vector. Is it still active?

Fritz

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Beautifull rifles Alf. I wonder if Bill Ruger had a look see at the 404 when they designed their Magnum rifle ?

Quite a lot of the Vektor actions have been sold to a Norwegian gun smith as rumors tell.
I guess some will end up as locally produced custom rifles and the rest will probably be offered on the open marked in a while.

There is a site here that has pictures of the Capstick .375,

i ll try to find it , but its around here. Zastava made a custom series that a Norwegian importer had, but theire sold off, that was custom rifles that had been made for tha communist big bosses and VIPs, and they were fine , thay cost ca 3000 us and it wasnt a single rifle that was similar, but they sold like hotcakes.

Fine rifles allright, wonder what the m-98 i have will resemble when iam finished building it.

lets see if I can get a pic up... (might be slightly off topic?)

Both are "African Mausers" (build in Africa), the one on the left was build on a Vektor copy of the double square bridge magnum Mauser.

In some of his books, Capstick indicated at one time he had a Continental Arms (?) .375 with a drop magazine and several other goodies. Does anyone know about these rifles?

Telly

I think it was an Army Navy .470 double that was stolen in Florida. If you get a chance, watch the tape where he hunts Cape Buffalo..I think that is the tape where he gives a description of the .375 Mauser in question.

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Originally posted by mr rigby:
There is a site here that has pictures of the Capstick .375,

Here a link to the thread with pictures of PHC's Musgrave .375.

https://forums.accuratereloading.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/.../r/14510232#14510232

ok, thanks for that adrook, its always good to see rifles that has belonged to the men who has inspired others.

Wasn't there a Capstick rifle auctioned off at the Dallas Safari Club convention a few years back?

RIch Elliott

Vapodog & Congomike:

The double stolen from Peter's Florida home was his William Evans .470. The .470 that he bought later, and which was pictured in his later books, was a Champlin-Famars that he got from Champlin. I looked at that rifle just before he bought it.

I'm pretty sure the rifle auctioned at DSC was the Musgrave .375. I'm remember looking at a .375 of his and remember the PHC-1 serial number and I'm pretty sure that it was on that occasion.
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"Serious rifles have two barrels, everything else just burns gunpowder."

What 400 Nitro said. I remember well the story about the stolen Evans and the new Famars. He wrote about it in "Sands of Silence", the book about hunting in the Kalahari I think with Vollker Grellmann.

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From my own experience with them of the most accurate off the shelf rifles I have ever shot were plain Musgrave rifles.

I agree, most plain Musgraves (both 98's and 90's) were good working rifles and very accurate. I lament selling my bog standard k98 .30-06

All I did was install and Timney trigger, cut the barrel from 24" to 22" and glass bed the action. It was a tack driver, even with PMP 180gr factory fodder. With my favourite loads it would keep 3 shots sub MOA on most days. Very good for a 'cheap' rifle!

Capstick's Musgrave .375 was auctioned at Dallas Safari Club January 2003.

Mike