Which rifle do we crown as the best looking ever?

[Accidental Villain]

The beauty lies within the material quality and subtile but very significant details and features.
Rigby Big Game ticks all the boxes for me. Even the trackers preferred it when taking bragging pictures they could show to the girls back in the village
Some guys like a lady with a lot of makup, others not so haha

 

[ay2626]

A couple more Rigby rifles for this thread because… why not? 416 and 9.3x62

 

[Dewald]

Westley Richards “dropbox” in 20 Gauge or .303 or similar small bore. The proverbial magic wand.

 

[Daniel Cary]

A couple more Rigby rifles for this thread because… why not? 416 and 9.3x62

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Christ on the cross man ✞ .nice!

 

[Daniel Cary]

I've been looking who had the "Hemingway Quote" ;

Westley Richards “dropbox” in 20 Gauge or .303 or similar small bore. The proverbial magic wand.

 

[Daniel Cary]

This is a really good Back Page Heym, I had

asked if all 88 Jumbo's were Sidelocks @ one time. Really nice 577. https://heym-fabrik.de/fotogalerie/

 

[F. Vaccaro]

One of the best looking affordable rifles !
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I can’t believe it took 7 pages before this was mentioned!

 

[Daniel Cary]

Ma bought a Husqvarna 12, long ago.
Those Rigby's were on a nice skin .. mine came from "Ashley Furniture" ;

 

[Daniel Cary]

 

[Brian Rothhammer]

The latter is truly a masterpiece both for the bolt and the magazine mechanism - a witness of the smart brains of his parents : Ritten Von Mannlicher and Otto Shoenauer, two authentic genious.

Herr Mannlicher

Herr Schoenauer

 

[VertigoBE]

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I really like the lines on that one Daniel, can you tell me a bit more about it?

 

[Red Leg]

Westley Richards “dropbox” in 20 Gauge or .303 or similar small bore. The proverbial magic wand.

Droplock - not dropbox

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[Daniel Cary]

I really like the lines on that one Daniel, can you tell me a bit more about it?

Thank You foremost.
I bought this Remington 22 new when I was of age, 1995?
I just pulled this out yesterday, "552 Speedline"? .. I really don't know much about it's background.

 

[Dewald]

Droplock - not dropbox

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You are entirely correct. I drove back from a buffalo hunt Sunday and went straight into a 24 shift in the ER. Foggy mind or finger thumble or both. Thank you very much for poining it out.

 

[Phil Giordano]

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Ahhh Brian this is what I mean! Fantastic!

 

[Doug3006]

I have the same gun. It was my first rifle. Bought at a gas station in Delavan, WI from their new gun rack. Every weekend I’d roll into the Gander Mountain corporate HQ with a crisp $5 and walk out with a brick of 500 .22lr to feed through it that weekend. What I lacked in precision I accounted for in volume.

$5 for a brick! Them was the days my friend! Winchester Wildcats. if memory serves, were as inexpensive as they came. Worked well too. There’s no telling how many rounds have been through my Marlin.

 

[SFRanger7GP]

A view more phot0s of a 275 Rigby London Best and a 416 Rigby Big Game. Doing what they were
designed to do.

 

[VertigoBE]

Lovely rifles @SFRanger7GP ! Really like the tone, composition of the pictures of them as well! it is not easy to make great photo's of fine rifles.

V.

 

[Huvius]

I still hold firm that nothing has more elegant lines than a single shot rifle.

Totally agree.
Here are four that could be candidates.

461 Gibbs Farquharson

Webley 1902 in 500NE

Webley 1897 by Lang

James Purdey 450 (A. Henry patent)

 

[JPetroni]

Hello All,

For all of us Left Handers, a newly manufactured Bespoke Westley Richards 375 H&H Magnum from the Explora.

JP