wow.....truly pretty......but not $18,500 worth IMO.

What blows my mind is that they are still using military surplus actions. And the engraving on that bolt knob is terrible!.

I would expect something more than Leupold Mounts for that kind of money.

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Originally posted by 22WRF:
What blows my mind is that they are still using military surplus actions. And the engraving on that bolt knob is terrible!.

I have no idea how nice that rifle is but
a local shop, I stop in from time to time, was getting in a "real" 416 Rigby. One of the guys told me I should stop by to take a look...

I was told it was a London Rigby made in the mid 1990s. I went in the shop just after the rifle arrived. What a dissappointment...the action had more slop in it than any other rifle I have ever handled and it felt like it weighed 12lbs...

It was on sale for only $15,000. I told the shop owner he ought to send it back, he said its a $30,000 rifle for only $15,000...yea, right. I guess anyone can have a bad day...

Well, nice piece of wood on that rifle.

This rifle looks like one of the California Rigby rifles I looked at recently. the style is just different.

That being said, it is still pretty to look at, but there is something in the style that is missing?

Pretty but it's a "put-together" made of screw-on parts from NECG. Nothing wrong with that but there are so many nicer hand-made custom guns out there for that kind of money it's not funny.

Dont know how they get away selling something like that for that kind of money.Should be criminal offence.
The scope mounts and engraving on that rig,are like buying a RollsRoyce and going to Kmart for some floormats and getting a coin and running it down the side of the paintwork,just cause you feel like it.
Better guns out there for 1/4 the price.
The only thing it inspires in me it,is the urge to get one done, to show them how it should be done.

That rifle is no more Rigby, than a dakota rifle is
A really Rigby rifle was made up to around 1940`s with the sackville adress.
That rifle is so misunderstood if one takes it
for a british style sportingrifle, but it is made by americans for americans............ model 70 safety.... Leopold scopemounts , the engraving .

Just as far as the poor layout and execution of that so called engraving goes, would render that rifle worthless to me.

I honestly believe I could reproduce that rifle (using gunsmiths I've already had do work), with better execution, for about $6000.
And that's on the high side.

Garrett

In my opinion the engraver of that rifle done about $15,000.00 in damages.

James

I couldn't agree more. The engraving is too rough. Not a fitting tribute to the Rigby name that's for sure. What is missing is about a hundred years of style, taste and history. The Brits must have felt such a profound sense of loss when the outfit in California started building rifles under the Rigby name... hopefully John Rigby isn't rolling in his grave. We'd probably feel the same way if some company in Taiwan or Korea started manufacturing rifles under the Winchester name.

Sort of leaves me speechless except to say that you guys CAN recognize shit from shinola-good call. Plateau Hunter

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I honestly believe I could reproduce that rifle (using gunsmiths I've already had do work), with better execution, for about $6000.
And that's on the high side.

I will let you know how it goes. I am doing just that now.

Gentlemen

Yuck

Cheers
/JOHAN

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Originally posted by 333_OKH:

...but there is something in the style that is missing?

Having owned quite a few pre-WWII Rigby magazine rifles, in chamberings from .275 through .303, to .416, what I feel is missing is the simplicty of line, taste, class and quality which marked true Rigbys at their zenith.

Most of mine were not only immediately recognizable as top quality guns, they came in leather-covered, beize-lined oak motor cases.

Also in the cases were turnscrews, top class nickeled cleaning rods, nickle-covered chamber funnels for pouring hot warter through after shooting corrosive ammo, the traditional elephant-ivory small bottle with screw-on ivory cap containing a spare foresight, and a nickled square bottle for gun oil.

Fitted into the case too, was almost always a Rigby-labeled German riflescope, with its own leather tubular container, which in turn was in its own special compartment in the large French-fitted Rigby-labeled rifle motor case.

The rifle(s) of course wore Rigby's own design of QD bases while the scopes wore the mating rings.

One of my Rigby rifles, a .303 in its case and with its accessories, is pictured in an early 1970's issue of Rifle magazine. It is not a good quality photo, but it vonveys the concept.

BTW, I paid $200 Canadian for that particular rifle, laid down duty-paid in Canada. I bought it at an estate auction in old Blighty.

Mexican Rigbys are not Rigbys.

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Originally posted by Woodjack:
Dont know how they get away selling something like that for that kind of money.Should be criminal offence.
The scope mounts and engraving on that rig,are like buying a RollsRoyce and going to Kmart for some floormats and getting a coin and running it down the side of the paintwork,just cause you feel like it.
Better guns out there for 1/4 the price.
The only thing it inspires in me it,is the urge to get one done, to show them how it should be done.

The engraving is pretty lacking. I cant find the thread, but like last week a guy posted some pics of his M1999 action that Scrollcutter was working on. The bolt knob by itself was more pretty than all the metalwork on that rifle. When I score the money to get a pretty rifle, Scrollcutter will get my cash.

here it is.

https://forums.accuratereloading.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/4711043/m/744100954