Beautiful rifle. It's interesting that they thought that there was a need for a gas escape hole in the left side of the reciever ring.

Trax


Who built it and what year ?

is that another one from the collection built up over 35 years like the Rigby on the pug web site.

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Originally posted by D Humbarger:
Beautiful rifle. It's interesting that they thought that there was a need for a gas escape hole in the left side of the reciever ring.

Brevex felt the desire or need, so did Pete Grisel when building M98 type receivers.
However, Brevex also cut/broached both sides, so their magnum M98 receivers are H-ring not C-ring like the orig. Oberndorf Magnum actions.
Now some might claim it makes no difference, however Tom Burgess test results indicated that a H-ring behaved differently when testes to failure.
H-ring FN mausers split/peeled all the way back to the ejector slot!.... he reported no such behaviour from C-ring mausers when tested to failure.
All the premium new M98 action manufacturers of today[as far as I'm aware] do C-ring configuration,...I have not found a premium maker who doesn't. Dakota forms a c-ring using barrel material.
Integral bolt handles also seem std. on most of the respected new manufacture m98 actions.

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Originally posted by 500N:
Trax


Who built it and what year ?

is that another one from the collection built up over 35 years like the Rigby on the pug web site.

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Highman & Laubscher.
Yes, from the same collection.

Someone that just had those two rifles would have a pretty damn nice collection in my view.

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Originally posted by MJines:
Someone that just had those two rifles would have a pretty damn nice collection in my view.

Agree, he had fine taste.

I would still take an original but worn G Gibbs 505 Gibbs over the "Highman & Laubscher" any day of the week.

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Originally posted by 500N:

I would still take an original but worn G Gibbs 505 Gibbs over the "Highman & Laubscher" any day of the week.

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Orig. Gibbs.

Thanks, nice gun.

I already have one, wouldn't mind another one !!!

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I love this rifle.
If I were looking for a 505, there would be no need to look any further.
Virtually every detail on this gun is what I would order if having one built. The $15K asking price may seem a bit much, but you couldn't get close to building that gun today for that amount.
I like the forend on this gun better than the Gibbs rifles which seem to be a bit thicker up there.
Got to stop thinking about this one...may end up doing something silly...

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Originally posted by Huvius:
I like the forend on this gun better than the Gibbs rifles which seem to be a bit thicker up there.

Agree.

Although the Gibbs shape is unique, they can be a bit big in the fore end.

Mine certainly is and can be hard to hold sometimes.

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I'm glad that isn't just an illusion. I never have handled an original 505 Gibbs but they do look big in the forend. My 416 is about as big as I would want to go in the forend but I do have probably smaller hands than average and I like to really grasp the forend and a bit of barrel just as when shooting doubles with a splinter forend.
I have a Gibbs in 280Ross on a SB magnum Mauser and I am really tempted to rebarrel to something bigger. Not sure if the wood could accommodate a barrel channel as big as for a 505 though. It would be the logical choice for that gun if I were to do it I guess since the 505 is the missing big bore boltgun in my safe right now. Then again, there is that 505 at Pugisi's... There I go again!

I'd buy the Puggs over re doing another Gibbs via a rebarrel.

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Originally posted by 500N:
I'd buy the Puggs over re doing another Gibbs via a rebarrel.

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Very true. Better to sell the Gibbs (and some others) to fund the 505. I think the Gibbs in 280 is a bit silly but I don't like the idea of dimantling the gun to make something else either. It has been restocked though so not 100% as it is. A very nice gun though.

Huvius

I was also thinking of the mag box, feeding issues etc.

I've just seen this when "gunsmiths" make a custom 505 or 500J, some seem to have a problem with getting the feeding right.

Gibbs got it right !!!

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Another nice one.Thanks Trax.

Sure is a gorgeous rifle, I'd be really happy if I owned it. I'll check out the link to the gibbs site.

I probably could dig a lot and find some pics I took years ago at an ACGG show of a color cased magnum mauser that was in 505 gibbs with 26" barrel done by Jerry Fisher, another absolutely stunning rifle, I wonder where it is now.

Red

Red, I wished I had taken photos of the Fisher rifle. Jerry got that one right. I have handled a few original 505 Gibbs rifles and the one Jerry built was the best balanced and handled superbly.

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458Win: Red, I wished I had taken photos of the Fisher rifle.

Feel free to copy (middle rifle):

Stunning Rifle!!