JOHN RIGBY & CO. BATTERY

[cmk]

@PaulB Beautiful stuff. A 350 would be a nice thing to have.

The map in the picture is intriguing and I can't really tell what area/era it depicts. Looks like India, but some aspects don't make sense to me. What can you tell about it?

 

[PCC600]

I’m not sure, it might very well be. I’d buy one if the condition was right im sure. I’m just such a sucker for the old girls!

Me too .

 

[PCC600]

All wonderful rifles . While appreciating the rarity of a pre war 416 Rigby , I must say I’m rather partial to the slant box 303s .

 

[Clodo Ferreira]

Hi Paul,

Magnificent. Period.
It is very dificult, to me, to pick one over the others....
Great colection!!!

 

[PaulB]

In my opinion, the most important is the .416 Rigby.

Magnificent collection. Now, you just need to add an original .400/350 Rigby to the setup. That was the predecessor to the .350 Rigby Magnum.

Oh man, great idea! I should’ve done that. I’ve got a few, I didn’t even think about it.

Could’ve used this one

 

[PaulB]

It’s always such a treat when you open up your collection for the rest of us to admire.

Thank you for preserving all of this history of Rigby firearms.

Your kind words and encouragement is why I do it. Years ago, when I first started I could barely find good pics of these things.

 

[PaulB]

Hi Paul,

Magnificent. Period.
It is very dificult, to me, to pick one over the others....
Great colection!!!

I totally understand

 

[John Telford]

Nice collection Paul,
Personally I value my .303 above my .275 (cased takedown) model due to its extreme rarity. Less than 100 ever made , slant box magazine etc.

 

[PaulB]

@PaulB Beautiful stuff. A 350 would be a nice thing to have.

The map in the picture is intriguing and I can't really tell what area/era it depicts. Looks like India, but some aspects don't make sense to me. What can you tell about it?

It is a very old map of India, it predates the modern shape and I can’t make the language.

 

[mms45]

@PaulB Beautiful stuff. A 350 would be a nice thing to have.

The map in the picture is intriguing and I can't really tell what area/era it depicts. Looks like India, but some aspects don't make sense to me. What can you tell about it?

I agree it’s a strange urge that I can’t seem to shake even though it makes little sense in a practical way the 350 is just hard to feed

 

[Jack Stevens]

@Jack Stevens In your collecting have you ever come across inventories or ledger books showing the collections or known hunters in colonial Africa?

Just for insight into what the aristocratic society that could afford anything they wanted, what they actually took afield and kept on the estates.

No, but you’re right. Such estate inventories of a known African hunter of that era would be fascinating, for the historical insight as you suggest.

While it’s not at all like an estate inventory or an old hunter’s diary, there is some of that historical approach among in Gregor Woods’ wonderful book, Rifles for Africa. (Safari Press 2002). If it’s not on your “African bookshelf,” I can highly recommend it.

Woods was a longtime African hunter and So. African gun writer for Magnum magazine. His writing is superb, being terse yet informative, and he relates many anecdotes about the Old School cartridges and names some of the people who hunted what with them.

Amazon.com: Rifles for Africa: 9781571571465: Woods, Gregor: Books

Amazon.com: Rifles for Africa: 9781571571465: Woods, Gregor: Books

www.amazon.com

 

[AZDAVE]

Like them all but of the ones you have I would have to choose the 350.

 

[pjaln]

I couldn’t say which one is most important, but the one I would use is the 416 rigby. I get the other 3, but the 416 was the biggest game changer by far in that era for big game IMO. You have very good taste in rifles and the time and the means to develop such a nice collection….that shit isn’t easy to find, at least to buy right. I really feel like you should own the rigby farq in 350 rigby that champlin has had for sale 3 years, that would really round things out.

at some point he will write about which gun is the most important in this pic ,it will be a great story guaranteed,,btw a friend mine bought that 350 farq

 

[Jack Stevens]

Like them all but of the ones you have I would have to choose the 350.

Robin Hurt would agree ....

Rigby’s .350 Magnum - A Nostalgic Trip Down Memory Lane - Safari Club

I was brought up on my parents’ ranch at Naivasha in Kenya. Located in Kenya’s Great Rift Valley, the ranch was situated on the lake shore and extended

safariclub.org

 

[pjaln]

just like it should be

 

[Jack Stevens]

just like it should be

That Model No. 4! Old school right there.

Interestingly, that specified 225grn SP load @ 2600fps from the Rigby's 24" barrel is easily duplicated by the .350 Remington Magnum, the world's first short magnum.

Out of the 20" barrel of my model Rem 660, a modern 225grn bullet has a velocity "window" of 2,550fps on the low end to about 2,730fps as a max.

 

[Fixfire]

416.
Great photo! Thank you for no scopes and the map adds such a classic look!!

 

[degoins]

Like them all but of the ones you have I would have to choose the 350.

Same here.

 

[Hornedfrogbbq]

Is there a peep site on the .416? Beautiful rifles...

 

[PaulB]

Is there a peep site on the .416? Beautiful rifles...

Yes it is