I think it is a pretty good thing.
I can't wait to pick up my newly rebarreled 275 Rigby. .

I didn't realize that had happened. When was it announced?

I found out 2 days ago. I figured it was all over the place.

It's a crying shame.

How prevalent is Rigby these days and what will the buyout by Blaser mean to us...the gun buying community?

Rigby's just a name. The company died many years ago. The Cali-Rigbys were also just a name and nothing to reflect on the wonderful rifles made years ago.

Volkswagen has bought Rolls-Royce?

CZ

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Originally posted by Mike Brooks:
Rigby's just a name. The company died many years ago. The Cali-Rigbys were also just a name and nothing to reflect on the wonderful rifles made years ago.

It still sucks. While the choices in double rifles have increased, the choices between a mass produced bolt action rifle (yes that includes Winchester) or an incredibly expensive European bolt action rifle (Holland and Holland, or Hartmann and Weiss) have dissappeared.

The Rigby archives were moved from Dallas to San Antonio on Wednesday by way of a un-marked armored vehicle (beat-up Chevy with burned out tail light). I was told the archives contained an rifle order from Rigby signed by the king of England I believe in the 1700s.
Everything vill eventually be taken to Der Vaterland vhere die name vill be changed to "Richtby".

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Originally posted by Rae59:
Everything vill eventually be taken to Der Vaterland vhere die name vill be changed to "Richtby".

Reichbei!!.

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Originally posted by jens poulsen:

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Originally posted by Rae59:
Everything vill eventually be taken to Der Vaterland vhere die name vill be changed to "Richtby".

Reichbei!!.

Ja. Das ist gute! (Weir haben keinne umloudt)

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Originally posted by jens poulsen:

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Originally posted by Rae59:
Everything vill eventually be taken to Der Vaterland vhere die name vill be changed to "Richtby".

Reichbei!!.

Not Richtby but Richtig...

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Originally posted by CZ:

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Originally posted by jens poulsen:

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Originally posted by Rae59:
Everything vill eventually be taken to Der Vaterland vhere die name vill be changed to "Richtby".

Reichbei!!.

Not Richtby but Richtig...

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Originally posted by CZ:
Volkswagen has bought Rolls-Royce?

Well ... Volkswagen doesn't own Rolls Royce, but they own do own Porsche, Audi, Lamborghini (through Audi), and Bugatti. So by that logic ... totally normal Blaser bought Rigby.

A good move for Blaser, giving them a "conventional" bolt action, as well as a potential top end double rifle. A good move for Rigby giving the advanced design and engineering that the Germans are famous for.
Just MHO, Peter.

I just wonder how long before those typically beautiful "British" lines will become worthy of a couple of responses!



God knows those Blaser abominations are about as attractive as a wheelbarrow full of buttholes!

Das alles meindt ganicht sum mich.

I think it may be time to buy a couple more vintage Rigbys!
I also think the comparison of this to many of the auto industry buys/mergers is missing the point. Apples and oranges.
From what I have read on the many forums which discuss classic rifles, what most people want in a rifle is just the same as sportsmen of 100yrs ago.
That said, Rigby of today, whether it be CalRigby or Blaser Rigby, is not the Rigby of old. So why dither over who, where, what and when as they apply to the Rigby name and just buy a real undeniable Rigby!

Ein Reichbei Tirolerstutzen mit swinebacke und doppelschnabel. Warum nicht?. Ein sehr gut gebirgsjägerbüchsen für Gemse..Ja?.
Meinen lederhosen bitte und Edelweiss lied!.

Obviously, no one likes change! However, Change happens.
I look at it as a good deal. At least the purchasers of the "Rigby" name are capable of manufacturing a quality firearms and have been doing such for quite some time now. They most certainly have the facilities and manufacturing infrastructure!

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Originally posted by CZ:
Volkswagen has bought Rolls-Royce?

CZ

FYI, Rolls Royce is owned by BMW.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Motor_Cars

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Originally posted by jens poulsen:
Ein Reichbei Tirolerstutzen mit swinebacke und doppelschnabel. Warum nicht?. Ein sehr gut gebirgsjägerbüchsen für Gemse..Ja?.
Meinen lederhosen bitte und Edelweiss lied!.

Ja!
Und Vergessen nicht deine schnaps!

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Originally posted by Rae59:

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Originally posted by jens poulsen:
Ein Reichbei Tirolerstutzen mit swinebacke und doppelschnabel. Warum nicht?. Ein sehr gut gebirgsjägerbüchsen für Gemse..Ja?.
Meinen lederhosen bitte und Edelweiss lied!.

Ja!
Und Vergessen nicht deine schnaps!

..und jägermeister.

Waidmanns Heil.

Will somebody please tell me this is an April Fool's joke.

I think it is a great thing. Maybe a company with some money can bring Rigby back from the ashes.

I'm just pleased it wasn't Norinco...

Not sure that even the "R"igby name would have survived...

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Originally posted by 458Win:
Will somebody please tell me this is an April Fool's joke.

No joke! J Roberts and Son (owned by big-game hunter Paul Roberts from London), who had been manufacturing rifles for Rigby & Co, had also been applying the Rigby 'look' to the Mauser M03:
http://www.jroberts-gunmakers....od-detail.php?id=110

Now that Paul Roberts is retiring, we have to wonder who exactly will be making the rifles, and how their price/quality ratio will change.

Is this another case of a modern manufacturer buying an 'established name', which has no relation to the original founders and gunsmiths? Seems like another 'boutique' buyout (similar to what happened to Purdey and H&H). Shame.

Many people today buy brands, not products anymore. This is why Blaser collects firearm brands like Mauser, Sauer and now, for the Anglosaxon world, Rigby.

Their engineering and manufacturing philosophy is very different and much more modern but of course, not worse than the "older", classic brands at industrial (Mauser) or workshop`s (Rigby) scale.

The rifle I like most is a Blaser, coincidentally. A single shot K95.

Agree, a company with the modern investment casting, MIME and CNC technology can make any classic gun they wish to. If the final finish is done to the same standards as the original (or better) you end up with a superior product.

Case in point is the current FN Model 70 compared to the old one that had to be hand fitted as parts were not "ready to go" when they came off the 19th century machines Winchester built them on.

While I know Savage is making piles of money selling all their various bolt actions, still I am peeved that given today technology, they have not resurrected the 99. One can only hope ......

Actually VW owns Bentley cars. The W12 engine is three VW golfs glued together.
Of course you could always go to Westley Richards and buy a real British rifle, with one barrel or two.....

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Originally posted by HistoricBore:
Actually VW owns Bentley cars. The W12 engine is three VW golfs glued together. Of course you could always go to Westley Richards and buy a real British rifle, with one barrel or two.....

Wrong, the W12 engine is two VR6 engines joined together.

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Originally posted by Todd Williams:
I just wonder how long before those typically beautiful "British" lines will become worthy of a couple of responses!



God knows those Blaser abominations are about as attractive as a wheelbarrow full of buttholes!

Components are pricing themselves higher by leaps and bounds.....

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Rigby's just a name. The company died many years ago. The Cali-Rigbys were also just a name and nothing to reflect on the wonderful rifles made years ago.

+1.

I just cannot understand this "fetish" for a rifle made in 2013 just because it has Rigby on the action!

Good Lord you have skilled, local, custom rifle makers in the USA who can make a product BETTER then Rigby at less cost and yet somehow you think that Rigby is better?

Listen up! This is no more Rigby than if I changed my name to James Purdey and started selling Spanish made shot guns, on a Beesley action, with the name Purdey on the barrels.

Get over it! And support your local USA bespoke or custom rifle makers!

I was looking further into the VW/Rolls Royce thing. It seems that at one point VW did own Rolls Royce. They purchased it and Bentley, but in 2002 sold Rolls to BMW.

I know the OP meant it in jest, just found it ironic that it actually did happen.

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Originally posted by Huvius:
I think it may be time to buy a couple more vintage Rigbys!

Just what does a vintage 275 Rigby go for these days?

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Originally posted by enfieldspares:
And support your local USA bespoke or custom rifle makers!

+1

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Originally posted by Sevens:
I was looking further into the VW/Rolls Royce thing. It seems that at one point VW did own Rolls Royce. They purchased it and Bentley, but in 2002 sold Rolls to BMW.

I know the OP meant it in jest, just found it ironic that it actually did happen.

Yup, the current Rolls are designed in Germany. Component manufacturing is there, too. I'm not sure to what extent if any they are assembled in England anymore.

VW bought the Bugatti name too. The Veyron was designed and engineered at VW and it's assembled in France. The 16 cyl W16 motor is two VW 8 cylinders designed into one block like the W12 is two V6s.

In the "Golden Age" of British gun making Bolt action rifles were "Mauser" actions and Krupp Steel barrels. Double rifle barrels were Krupp Steel both assembled in Birmingham England.

Jimmy Buffett said it best-
"Breathe in, breathe out
Move on!"

Totally apathetic about the subject.

A sad day. I got to meet the principals at SCI this year, and bought a copy of their book. Roberts signed it for me as well as the author and the CEO.

Now a collectible...?