| Huvius |
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| 19/04/14 11:46 PM |
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Re: Rigby 450 nitro express double 1908 discovered in zambia
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Someone better make a reasonable offer on it, as there was talk of it being taken to London and rebored to .470NE and being restocked! That would be a crime!
And after all that, it would be a $35K rifle!
As evidenced here: http://www.martiniandhagngunmakers.com/forsale_rifles.htm
This particular gun has been rebarreled to 470 but has a quarter rib which is weired looking to me and the wrong blank was used for the stock IMO. Still, at $30K US is less than half the asking price of the gun in Zambia. btw, it was offered by Lewis Drake at $47,500 and they still have excellent photos of the gun on their site. Looking at those photos, buying it at $30K is damned tempting...
If there is talk of reboring/rechambering to 470 then I would suspect that the bores (or one of them) are not good enough to save. Also, I have been told that the original profile of the 450 barrels is not really heavy enough ahead of the breech to properly convert to 470 although there are a few around which have been. That is probably why the gun at M&H was rebarreled.