| 400NitroExpress |
| (.400 member) |
| 17/12/07 11:31 AM |
Re: Weird Rigby 470
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I know the point you are making and yes it is unusual indeed, like the ejectorwork , no rising bite,shape of lockplates etc.
Rigby abandoned the Bissell rising bite just before WWI, so of course a gun this late wouldn't have it.
It's unlikely that Paul would have had anything to do with this gun, as it was built some years before his tenure began. I imagine David Marx would have been managing director when it was built. A lot of weird stuff was built in the British trade in those days when they thought they were breathing their last. While it may have been bought in, I don't see anything that looks Belgian.