I hope you aren't talking about the USA Manufacturers when you made this statement
"Not what you would expect from a quality rifle manufacturer of considerable pedigree"

"Then again you can't buy pedigree, you have to earn it" - and Paso Robles Rigby's will
NEVER earn it.

They must have thought they could buy the name, make rifles and sell heaps of them on the name only
- sounds like an organisation that thinks consumers are stupid. I know my mates in the US are a bit
embaressed about it.

It's an insult to put a name like Rigby on a gun like that.

Anyway, everyone I know who owns an "Old Rigby" rifle knows that the value of it increased
when Paso Robles took over !!!

500 Nitro

Now I've got that off my chest, have a good day !!!