Recent content by Huvius

I’ve never seen one and interestingly the one Westley Richards catalog that shows it features it on an ad for their ‘97 falling block rifle. It looks like it could be based on the 280 Ross but I don’t see the case dimensions anywhere online. I’m looking forward to seeing your rifle and chamber...

Next to the 470 you can see that the 360 No.2 is not a pip-squeak! Here is a photo from my bench. L to R Bertram 360 No.2 “formed” case, same fire formed in my Greener, 450/400, and the same necked down but not yet fire formed. As you can see, I had to be pretty generous with the annealing...

This is the WW Greener 360 No.2 I owned. What a beautiful rifle that was!

I would expect it to be a 360 2-1/4” being sighted out to 300. The 360 No.5 is a really nice small game cartridge in its own right though. Probably the most useful of the usual “Rook & Rabbit” cartridges. I make mine from 38 Special brass and many find their rifles shoot .358” bullets well so...

This rifle is surely a 360 2-1/4” or a 360 No.5 The 360 No.2 was invented in 1908 (I think) and is certainly too much for a Rook sized rifle to handle.

I had a WW Greener 360No.2 double for a while. It is much larger in case capacity than the 9.3X74R or 400/360 which are very similar. The 360 No.2 is really a 450/400 3” necked down to .366” I reloaded for my Greener and iirc I used 76gr of H4831 (320gr Hawk bullets) which I think was the same...

That’s been standard for ages I’d think. I know a lot of folks that do it with no fuss. It’s a lot less extreme than making 333 Jeffery or 280 Ross from 300H&H belted brass and fire forming the case ahead of the belt. That works too but a little scary if you ask me…

The potential of the 350 Rigby Magnum is greater than the Whelen as are the Norma Magnum and the best of the vintage .35s, the 35 Newton and others such as the 350 G&H Magnum. The Rigby was loaded to what was acceptable and achievable in the day considering the bullets they had and the game that...

That is awesome!! Congratulations on a successful Safari.

I’ve often thought the same when it comes to DG hunting with a handgun and even more, archery. Folks do this all the time with little pushback, but MAN, mention the 45-70 and the long knives come out. The 375JDJ is nothing more than a rimmed version of the 375 Rimless Express which is the same...

You’ve got that backwards. The rear is the set trigger - lightens up the pull on the main (front) trigger. That’s the double set trigger setup. You are correct that some rifles have a single set trigger where the trigger is pushed forward to set and then used as normal. The littler screws on...

When Glen was in the development stage of his rifle he promoted it quite heavily and we sparred a bit over its superiority over the classic falling block rifles of the golden age. Now, seeing what the British industry is up to, I regret giving him so much crap over it. They aren’t exactly my...

I would say that was true of any of the high end British gunmakers in the early 20thC but not all that applicable to Rigby today unless one is considering one of the London Best rifles. Other than going through the proofhouse, no “work” is done to the Big Game and HS in England. This is not new...

While I applaud Rigby in putting a classic blued steel and walnut sporting Mauser back in production, the new Big Game and Highland Stalkers aren’t really all that nice especially at the price point. They (L&O) are simply producing a rifle that is “close enough” to an original 416 or 275 and...

Ah!! You are correct - don’t know what I was thinking. So, my previous point on that was wrong!!