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What do you guys who like the 416 Rigby find that appeals to you? It is not the oldest, nor the most powerful. It does not come in the best package. It is low pressure but in these days of powders other than Cordite that is no longer an issue.

It was never very popular and only in the last 15 years has it become so. Help me to understand.

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.375 H&H, .416 Rigby, .404 Jeffery, .470 Nitro Express....

To paraphrase Michael McIntosh,
"These are the cartridges that conjure visions..."

For me, a lot of it is just simply the nostalgia and romance of it. Yeah, a .416 Remington, for example, is more efficient and it's slimmer and trimmer. That doesn't matter to me. I just had to have the .416 Rigby. I can't afford a Rigby rifle but at least my Ruger M77 is chambered for the Rigby cartridge. Now, if a person is not into the nostalgia and romance then that's fine. Each to his own. Of course, the Rigby doesn't have to apologize for its ballistic performance, either. Yeah, it's a big case for today's powders, etc., etc. but it just has that flair!

Just my opinion....
-Bob F.

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From: Will

Huh?

I think you are just bucking for the moderator job.

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Now that's Funny. I guess you must be new around these parts stranger. You'd better smile when you say that.

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From a simply personal point of view on this cartridge:



"It screams of Africa or It is pure Africa"



Why would this be?

Taylor makes reference to the caliber being very "popular" in Africa?



This makes no sense as there were less than 200 built? Guess in a world and timeline where some calibers such as the 500 Jeffery(24 rifles) 505 Gibbs , Some claim less than 100 rifles and 600 Nitro (less than 60 rifles?) a rifle hitting the 200 mark would be popular. But way less popular than the 404 Jeffery.

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It would appear that the legacy of Ruark had to do with this, though his message on the 416 Rigby is very understated. It's almost subliminal but once you have read his works the idea of the 416 certainly sticks.

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Well we can certainly thank Mr Bill Ruger for this one cause he affectively gave form to the Ruark Legacy. Without the Ruger factor I doubt if the 416 Rigby would have been anything but a custom dream and likely CZ would never have followed with their rendition.

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ALF,



Thanks mainly to Ruark (and probably some others), the romance and legend of the .416 Rigby is/was far greater than the reality of its use in the past. As you note, there really weren't that many .416 Rigby's made and used in Africa prior to the late 1980s when Ruger and others started bringing out rifles.



But to quote the line from the movie "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance":



"When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."



-Bob F.