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I’ll just share a couple of anecdotes, as one person’s truths are shaped by what he encounters and sees. As a cadet many years ago, a group of Canadian Defense Force cadets came to the Academy for a visit. Lots of pomp, and it started off well. Then the very vocal critics in their group...

Thanks! Sounds nice.

How’s the trigger overall? Any reason to get a Timney for it?

R8…. Saw that many times going into Anchorage landing on runway 7R. We’d descend over the Turnagain Arm coming from the east, and then a right base turn just outside of Fire Island. Miss those years so much. Agree re the steel receiver and thick barrels, and how much weight they’d add up...

Guys, it’s not worth overthinking. It’s a very nice offering, and will serve a new owner very well.

Yeah, probably on winter’s to-do list.

“Excellent choice, sir.” (Works for fancy restaurants and fancy guns.) The .275 shoots like a laser beam. Have the exact same gun and can’t take my eyes off of it!

2 1/2 at 20 gauge…. Very cool old guns, but what a bee-otch getting ammo, unless I’m missing something. Seems like there are more sources than just RST for 2 1/2 at 12 gauge. Guess I should just be glad someone’s at least selling it.

Willy Vargason sounds like a porn star name.

We still had flight engineers when I got hired at the airline. One night at dinner, the captain (Army) said “oh good, bread”, the first officer (Navy) asked “is it warm?”, and I (Air Force), the flight engineer, asked “is it seven grain bread?” The captain picked up on it right away and had a...

Mauser 18 or the Sauer 100….. no, no… negative. Can’t believe they’re actually putting their brand’s names on those things. Avoid.

I think Northern thought “London Best” is a broad adjective of sorts rather than an actual line of upper end guns Rigby makes.

The American market is Purdey’s biggest, if I heard them correctly. But they do a very significant business with very wealthy European and middle eastern clients as well.

Congrats on the dik-dik. Was in Namibia in June and got a Steenbok as the smallest. Saw some Duiker, but female or too young. They said that fall was wet and the grass was unusually high this year, so the small game was very difficult to see.

And Rigby has Mauser, whereas the rest do not. So the rest are producing their own actions at a vastly lower economy of scale than Rigby/Mauser. London Best keeps the company also in the higher end of things…. It’s a pretty smart move by Marc.