As we are talking Heym.

Yesterday I received an email from Heym (in Germany) to inform me that they hoped to have my 88B Safari with me by next week.

Heym have been a total pleasure to deal with and, fortunately for me, the chap I was dealing with was American, so no language barrier. It was purely by chance I ended up dealing with the factory in Germany, but their UK agent was the pits and in total frustration I winged an email to the factory. Suddenly, all that couldn't be done, could be done. The only down side was they could not accommodate it in side lock, due to time considerations.

The rifle nearly didn't happen, for a week after I had transfered the deposit to Germany, we discovered my wife had breast cancer. I was all for cancelling the whole shooting match... but Susan would not hear of it. She insisted I went ahead with the rifle and we would simply put our trip back.

With the Heym email came some pictures of the engraving, one of which my wife objected to as it said "from Susan" and she felt she hadn't given it to me. However, I did point out that if it hadn't been for her very positive approach to her cancer, it would never had happened.

I have a very special wife... Today we have just got back from the hospital, where she had her last chemo session and I am pleased to relate that all is progressing as planned. Christmas 1979, her Christmas present to me was an action, engraved plus a little gold inlay. The covering message was "Rigby's are expecting you, just tell them how you want your .270 finished."

So now you know why I sign in a Rigby270... When I have a spare moment I will post some pictures of the .270.

... And the Heym is 416/500NE, optional extractor/ejector, 26" barrels and yes I will post some picture of it as well

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