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We just hosted the Inaugural NT Big Game Rifle Championships in Darwin, and there were 9 doubles in the gunrack. No two were the same chambering! Only one was a 'modern' rifle, a Kreighoff chambered for the 9.3 x 74 cartridge. The rest were all Brit, namely: H&H Royal SLE in .375 Flanged Magnum, Jeffery BLE in .400 3-inch, Rigby boxlock in .350 Rigby, Greener boxlock in .577 x 2 3/4 Light Nitro, Tolley TLH in .500/.450 x 3 1/4 Magnum Express, Rosier ULH snap-action .500 Express, Webley & Scott BLE in .32-40, Tolley sidelock in .500/.450 N0.1 Express. What does this tell you? There were plenty of interesting bolt-guns too, including a 10.75 x 68 Mannlicher Schoenauer and a 1903 6.5, a Rigby .275, a Westley Richards .275, a Savage 99 take-down in .22 Hi-power, and a Scheiring break-open single-shot in 7 x 65 R (plus the usual .338s, .375s, .416s and .458s). Needless to say, a good time was had by all! Here's some of the hardware: |