Just in case any of you have a wad of dollars you don't have a use for, my wife's birthday is next week. If you act quickly you could buy her this....just send it to me and I'll make sure it gets to her........


http://www.gunsamerica.com/guns/976723607.htm

Oh, and she thanks you.....

Cunuck,

I would get that for your wife, but the wood is a little plain, I think we can find something a little nicer, lets keep looking

Gringo -

I appreciate your thoughtfulness. I got so busy dreaming of the old days, when I read you could bowl over jumbo outside the back door of your farmhouse in Tanzania (I think they called it German East Afrika then), I didn't even notice the wood.

Too bad we're so late. Otherwise, you could buy it for her, and I would pay for upgraded wood done here in the States before I gave it to her. I promise...."Scout's honour."

It's not a Rigby!
It's a Merkel that has been converted in USA

You don't want it. The fake Rigby's made in the PDR of Kalifornia aren't worth having.
------------------------------------------------
"Serious rifles have two barrels, everything else just burns gunpowder."

Well it's not really a Rigby but it is priced as what it is, a fancy Merkel.

quote:

Originally posted by 400 Nitro Express:
You don't want it. The fake Rigby's made in the PDR of Kalifornia aren't worth having."

Personally, I don't have any problem with Merkels. Having owned a considerable number of doubles, both British and Continental, I will agree that they are different species. But quite honestly, I liked my Simson and other eastern Europe doubles quite as much as my WR's, Rigby's, and other "old blighty" makes. It's much like blondes and redheads. I might prefer one hair colour over another, but if they can shake'n bake in the kitchen and the bedroom, hair (or skin) colour is no disqualifying factor.

That's especially true if someone else is buying.

I don't understand. A lot of British double rifles were made from actions produced by other makers. Why is the US Rigby knocked for doing the same?

Just a question.

John:

It isn't so much the action as it is the quality of the work. The Merkel is a better rifle at half of the cost.
------------------------------------------------
"Serious rifles have two barrels, everything else just burns gunpowder."

I like the California Rigbys, Smirkel action or not.

The California Rigbys seem to opperate OK, and when you get down to the brass tacks of it, that is the reason one buys a double rifle! Still, as 400 says I'd simply rather have the Merkel instead, and use the extra $7K to help out on a good Cape buffalo hunt!