I had the great pleasure to have Marc Newton and Rigby with me to share my Stand at the above mentioned exhibition in Oslo Last weekend. And I must honestly say that it was four very interesting days.

I am very suspicius of coments like yours Fountainblue. First of all you have not seen it yourself, first hand. You even had the chance but the rifle did not even interest you apart from putting it down on the web namedropping others. And you base your oppinions on others. and mostly from a certain french gunmaker who very unprofettionally have said alot of things about this rifle, and as far as I have understood this gunmaker have misunderstood the concept of this rifle entierly. This is the first generation of the Big Game Rifle by Rigby. wich is an entry lever Rifle like the original rifle actually was back in the days. For those who did not want to put down the money for a Double. And for those whoo did not like the look of the Big Game Rifle you can always go for the London best and you can have it at your exact specifications. And even for the 3 times the price this is significantly cheaper than other London Bolt action Rifles.

On the stand we had alot of very keen guests whoo was very happy and excited about the new Rigby. I have exhibitted in norway since 2007 with the best London gunmakers, but the interest I saw like this new Big Game Rigby was outstanding. Now, expencive guns is very hard to sell in Norway as the tradittion for exclusive guns in Norway is very limited. The money is here but not the tradittion. But the interest Rigby had was very very good.

So I think your friend was one of a very very limited numbers who was not happy with this Rifle. I can agree that it is on the heavy side. You can debate the need for this wight is neccecerly due to the fact that in a shooting situation you don'r realy feel the recoil, you carry the gun more than you shoot.

But remember that this rifle was developet in less then a year and it has sold 50% of its production for this year alreadywithin 8 weeks after introduction!!!

After my experiences with Mr Newton last week I am sure he will take notice of the coments around this Rifle and maybee even take this into concideration when the production of the next batch of rifles is too bee set in motion.