Blasphemy

[degoins]

It feeds and functions as smooth as silk......best I've ever tried. Even with 200 grain flat points made for the 375 Winchester. However, when shooting 300 grain cartridges with three or four rounds, after one or two shots, the next round fails to come into battery. I'm thinking maybe a new stiffer follower spring might be in order. Any suggestions?

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

Would it be considered blasphemous to mount a scope on a vintage Rigby that has been re-bored, re-chambered and generally restored by the previous owner? The caliber is .375, was originally .350.

@degoins
If it's not original any more put a,scope on it.
Why would anyone want to rebore a beautiful 350 to 375. That to me is criminal unless the barrel was ruined.
Bob

 

[degoins]

@degoins
If it's not original any more put a,scope on it.
Why would anyone want to rebore a beautiful 350 to 375. That to me is criminal unless the barrel was ruined.
Bob

Oh I will definitely be scoping it.

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

Hi degoins,

I have seen two original 350 Rigby Mausers. To me, the best thing to do is to convert them to .375 H&H using the same barrel!!
Love your .30-06!!!

Best!

CF

@Clodo Ferreira
Taking a 350 and converting it to 375 is a criminal offence that should be punishable by a lifetime ban on shooting unless the barrel is stuffed.
Bob

 

[Clodo Ferreira]

Hi degoins,

Truly beautiful rifle!!! Close to perfect, to me, for a 375 H&H!!!

 

[Clodo Ferreira]

Hi Bob,

Really??

Best Regards!!

CF

 

[degoins]

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Hi degoins,

Truly beautiful rifle!!! Close to perfect, to me, for a 375 H&H!!!
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Thank you sir!! It handles like a magic wand, but shooting it with 300 grain loads is pretty lively. Of course you don't notice the recoil when shooting at game.

 

[degoins]

Great news!!! Delta Airlines finally found my 2 rifles that they lost for four months......THANK GOD!!! I just got back about an hour ago from picking them up. They were in perfect order.

 

[Osama Mahdi]

Great news!!! Delta Airlines finally found my 2 rifles that they lost for four months......THANK GOD!!! I just got back about an hour ago from picking them up. They were in perfect order.

I think it worth writing a whole report about this if you didn't already.
Your experience might help others.
Kind regards

 

[PARA45]

Oh man, what a cluster and emotional roller coaster you’ve been subject to the last four months. This is the first I’ve heard of a US airlines losing a rifle. Lesson learn for all us who travel outside the US with our rifles.

Glad you got your rifles back. Yes, please write a report on this ordeal.

 

[degoins]

Thanks guys!!
So when when finally arrived in Columbia, SC via Atlanta from Johannesburg, after our flight had been canceled and we had to spend another night in Johannesburg and most of the day with a bunch of ANC who were having a convention at the hotel, our luggage didn't arrive. We actually didn't expect it to since the time of our flight from Atlanta to Columbia was too short. Delta had our luggage delivered to my home in Pamplico, SC the next day. Everything but the gun case. So I contacted Delta and they opened a missing luggage case, gave me a case number and a tracking link to keep checking. The last place the case was scanned was in Johannesburg showing loaded on the plane the night we left. After a week of the status not changing I contacted Delta. They assured me they were working on it. So I called TSA and customs in Atlanta and Columbia to see if the guns were there. Both said they were not.
This went on up until a few weeks ago when Delta told me they could not locate the guns and that they would be paying me 1726.00 and said they'd be happy to work with any insurance company I had or something like that and in the mean time if the guns showed up they'd send them to me.They did pay the 1725.00 and I figured that was that.
This past Thursday a guy from Delta called and said they had my gun case and asked for me email so he could send what needed to get them. The next morning he sent me the email with some paperwork to print off and take to Delta Freight in Charleston as that was the closest place they could send them since they would have to get customs approval to be released.
So off to Charleston we went. The guy at Delta Freight gave me the number to the customs office down there, I called them, the lady on the phone told me to email her a picture of the the Delta Freight form and a picture of the customs form from when we left, I did that, she emailed back a picture of the Delta form with the customs stamp on it, I emailed that to the Delta guy and he went back and brought me my guns. He told me they'd been in customs in Atlanta all that time.

 

[degoins]

Oh at one point I asked the Delta baggage rep that I'd been emailing and talking to back and forth, that if instead of paying me 1726.00, that instead provide me with a round trip ticket from Columbia to Atlanta and back and I'd go find my guns myself because I felt sure they were in Atlanta. As you now know, she wouldn't go for it.

 

[Zambezi]

Haven't read the whole thread but my gut reaction is if you have an original Model T Ford and the previous owner has lowered it, dropped a hemi in it, painted it candy apple red and put in an auto box then the addition of the furry dice by you makes no difference.

It's no longer a collector's item...

IMHO

Make it yours and use it and enjoy it.

 

[degoins]

Haven't read the whole thread but my gut reaction is if you have an original Model T Ford and the previous owner has lowered it, dropped a hemi in it, painted it candy apple red and put in an auto box then the addition of the furry dice by you makes no difference.

It's no longer a collector's item...

IMHO

Make it yours and use it and enjoy it.

I intend to do that very thing. Thanks for your suggestion.