Anyone have any closeups of any pre-war 275 Rigby sporters on intermediate length DSB actions.want to build one on a Satterlee titanium action.

Kim, Send me your email and I will send you some pictures of my DSB intermediate action rifle. Its marked 7x57 not 275 rigby. Its a type M not a british rifle.
Jeff
jawheeler@bellsouth.net

Thanks Jeff.

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Originally posted by KimR:
Anyone have any closeups of any pre-war 275 Rigby sporters on intermediate length DSB actions.want to build one on a Satterlee titanium action.

No but I have the perfect bottom metal. Should hold 10 or 12 down, lol.

And it's paid for already!

And if this ever gets done,i may need it!Thanks

i posted pics of my 275 rigby on nitroexpress ,its not a dsb but there are some decent closeups of the action ...paul

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Originally posted by jawheeler:
Kim, Send me your email and I will send you some pictures of my DSB intermediate action rifle.

Aw, c'mon... share the pictures here!

you wont find a dsb pre war rigby ,,they didnt make them ,,you would be lucky to find a ssb...these look nicer eh ....paul,,

Paul, that is NICE!

I love those Rigbys.

Here is a 275 SSB partially completed:
http://photobucket.com/dpcd67

Simply perfect! Although the rifle looks very simple I am sure that the person or persons who made it possessed riflemaking skills that are rarely seen today.Show me one guy who could make a rifle that nice.Look at that wood! Look at how fine and elegant everything is.No thick grip or butt and garbage like that.No funny looking wood either.

Found this (offered by Champlin´s)

A prewar original .275 Rigby with intermediate action and single square bridge.
An extremely rare configuration

Pictures posted below thanks Fal Grunt.

If any of you ever want photo's posted but do not know how, I will do my best to help you through the process. If you are computer illiterate I will be happy to post them for you if you can email them to me.

The few minutes time is worth sharing these items with everyone, myself included!

FAL, now that you mention it, I can get pictures to photobucket, but am not sure how to get them onto my AR post. I have tried copy and paste, but can't get it to work.

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Originally posted by dpcd:
FAL, now that you mention it, I can get pictures to photobucket, but am not sure how to get them onto my AR post. I have tried copy and paste, but can't get it to work.

If you hover the cursor over the image on your album, a tag menue will drop down.

Go down to the "IMG code" tab, click on it. It should briefly flash "copied". (if it doesn't flash, then copy it)

Now all you need to do is paste it on the post.

Here's an IMG from your album.



It didn't flash copy automatically. I clicked on the IMG tab, then copied the highlighyed URL in the window & pasted it.

What he said

Thanks guys!really needed a pic of the Rigby style stock for Stuart to copy.were on our way.

Candy (or Porn..?) for my eyes, ALF!

M

See how these turn out... A member sent me these to post.

I am curious which actions Rigby used for their rifles.

Were they consistent in their use of one maker, or did they use many makers.

It was my understanding they strictly used Mauser receivers. (That is, Oberndorf, "the orignal mauser") I stand to be corrected however as I am by no means a Rigby expert.

Rigby had an exclusive British import relationship with Mauser until 1912; that is why other makers used converted military actions, and that is why Mauser advertising said to make sure you get an "Original Mauser".
Thanks for the pic posting lesson too.

im pretty sure the famous selby 416 is not made on a magnum but a standard lenght military action drop box added,,it was a late gun there is an article refering to this in an older gun digest ,,ive never seen a prewar gun on anything but an original oberndorf....paul

One thing which make this special is the use of the "intermediate" standard length action for the 275 rimless Rigby. Full length, but with the bolt slightly shorthened and a longer front bridge.

M

Ah ha! I have one of these actions and I could never quite tell what the deal with it was. A mix of "small ring" mauser attributes mixed with "large ring".

The notable being the shortened bolt, small threads, large ring, mexican style(sr) rear tang, front ring is longer than standard, but it uses standard bottom metal.

Even marked Oberndorf on the side.

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Originally posted by shootaway:
Simply perfect! Although the rifle looks very simple I am sure that the person or persons who made it possessed riflemaking skills that are rarely seen today.Show me one guy who could make a rifle that nice.Look at that wood! Look at how fine and elegant everything is.No thick grip or butt and garbage like that.No funny looking wood either.

Actually there are more capable people around today than you think.
The quality of stockwork/inleting and metal work found on some of those old British rifles is quite substandard compared to what has been done by highly talented individual smiths/small shops that have been emerging over the last three decades or so.





I would have Bells Rigby 7x57 for nostalgic reasons,
But would by far choose something from Anderson or Smithson in regards to precise execution of workmanship in metal & wood.

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Originally posted by Fal Grunt:
Ah ha! I have one of these actions and I could never quite tell what the deal with it was. A mix of "small ring" mauser attributes mixed with "large ring".

The notable being the shortened bolt, small threads, large ring, mexican style(sr) rear tang, front ring is longer than standard, but it uses standard bottom metal.

Even marked Oberndorf on the side.

Is it for sale? I'll give you a good prize!

m

I guess I'd get some heat if I had ".275 Rigby" engraved on the barrel of a 7x57 M70, huh?

Lovely rifle. Much envy from this end.