The 250th Anniversary of Rigby this year inspired me to carry the .275 HV Model currently in my custody, for a stint in the Back Country Hunting blocks.
I was hoping to bring some game to bag as a celebration of Rigby's long history of gun-making and my respect for their marvelous hunting rifles from the golden era.
Accompanied by Mark (m239) with a .400 Nitro and Ian with a .458, I was happy to carry the diminutive stalking rifle with confidence knowing that any buffalo encountered would be dealt with by my buddies.
The first chance came when a reasonable boar jumped from a hidden wallow and bounded up a steep embankment to flee. As he topped the bank, my 140gr Woodleigh Protected Point caught him in the throat and destroyed the jugular and/or carotids, dropping him instantly but the death throes took him back down into the creek bed.

A couple of kms later, I was poking my way through a creek meander shrouded in long grass when a shout from Ian got my immediate attention! "Coming your way!"
I barely had time to mount the rifle before the fleeing hog topped the intervening rise and raced past my position at full gallop.
Luckily I got the lead right this time and placed the 140-grainer perfectly on the shoulder, bringing his frenzied flight to a skidding halt!

While these quarry were not huge in the tusk department, I was more than happy to bag a couple of decent boars under exciting circumstances in the company of good mates to help celebrate Rigby's important milestone year.

Next task will be to bag a brace or three of magpie geese with the Rising Bite Sidelock shooting bismuth twos when the season opens early next month.
Hopefully Mark can make it back up to the Top End to share a few sun-rises out on the floodplain!