Recent content by Huvius

I like Howard’s Feed-N-Wax

Get your tomatoes and old cabbages ready… A open sight sporting rifle is not a shotgun or a target rifle! Most of the design concepts which are often seen as important in those disciplines just don’t really come into play with a stalking rifle. You may find yourself in any number of situations...

There is a thread here about the Schuler magazine and I posted pictures of mine. The way they did it is 100% reliable and really quite simple once you see how it was done.

By the way, 45GBP in 1926 is roughly equivalent to 3500GBP today, and W.J. Jeffery starts their 500 at 52,000GPB

It is my belief that Schuler developed the 500 rimless and Jeffery adopted it. Pretty much says so in their own period advertising: Surely if they had developed it, they would have claimed that. Instead they give a nod that the 500 rimless already existed In their advertisement for the 500...

I have a box of 375 head stamped Bertram brass. If you’re interested, PM me.

Looks to me to be a 7X57 AI chamber not necessarily anything to do with Rigby which was simply a renamed 7X57 with lighter bullets.

As for the rifle in question, the 1917 action deserves more admiration than it gets. I have a very nice Griffin & Howe in 333 G&H Super Mag.

In this case, manufactured at least 50yrs ago. Here’s the deal: https://www.atf.gov/firearms/curios-relics

It really is a nice example although a bit unusual with the express sights. Winchester records show it is correct for caliber and fancy wood and that it was shipped back quite soon after the original sale for some work. What work isn’t clear as those books were apparently lost in a flood so no...

Mine is an 1895 with a little English flair:

Has anyone here seen a reworked Savage 110? I suspect these can accommodated the 416 Rigby without much fuss. I agree that the vast majority of true magnum actioned rifles are bought on the used market. They have never been a mainstay of any manufacturer - Mauser made maybe 7000 magnum length...

True about pressure, but I think bullet selection is key with Drillings. Their barrels run quite thin so a softer bullet is recommended.

That is 100% NOT a magnum action. All magnums have straddle floor plates - that’s the easy tell from the bottom view. The rifle was once a nice TypeA but has the bolt modified, stock notched for the modded bolt, safety modified rings drilled and tapped for scope bases, the rear bridge poorly...

You could rechamber it for 30’06R which uses trimmed 7X65R brass in a 0’06 chamber. At least that’s how I understand it… It would be a rimmed cartridge then too!