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Double Rifle photos, both are solid shooters. - Mike W&C Scott .500/.450 3 1/4" NE, made about 1899 Rigby .470NE, class C grade, sold to retailer J.T. Hartwell in January 1919 |
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Both are GREAT!! I know the market doesn’t seem to like Nitro hammer rifles but I think they are super cool. Especially with a Jones underlever. |
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Thanks Ben, Both would likely have originally gone to, or been intended for India. The Rigby has a faint 3 digit "Maharaja number" behind the pistol grip. The Scott shows very little wear and perfect bores/rifling so was probably caught up in the India/Sudan ban on .450's and fired little if at all from ~1899 to the ban. Thereafter maybe just languished in a cabinet because hammer rifles and the .500/.450 3 1/4" had become dated and out of fashion? I have found that neck expanded and fireformed .500/.416 brass are the easiest and least expensive way to get this .500/.450 shooting. The Rigby's buyer, J.T. Hartwell, traded as a "Gun and Rifle Maker" at 5a West Chapel Street then all of 5 West Chapel Street, London from 1919 to 1925, the Jones Underlever and hammers on the Rigby are pretty unusual for as late as 1919. - Mike |
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Jack Lott used a hammer(ed) .577 Nitro on cape buffalo. I can still picture, the picture. Seems to me, he was holding a ctg. in his right hand's fingers. (not quite positive on that) |
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Quote: Hi Daryl, Yep, That picture was in a Jack Lott article in Gun Digest, will have to go look for it. Lott was a huge fan of Jones Underlever Hammer rifles because they can be opened & reloaded quite silently. - Mike |
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Gorgeous...thanks for sharing!! |
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Quote: I agree. I could be happy using double rifles with hammers all the time. |
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Still have to dig out the Gun Digest with that Jack Lott article for Daryl. Hard to get motivated with freezing & snow ......... detached shop is not heated unless I fire up the wood stove about 2 hours ahead of time. - Mike |
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All 3 of my H&H double hammer rifles (10 bore Paradox, 8 bore ball gun & .500 X 3 1/4" BPE) were almost certainly made by W&C Scott (pre 1892 of their [H&H] new factory) [If anyone has pics of Phillip Webley rifles of that era please post pics] as they also made H&H guns and rifles Always the standard for hammer rifles in that era, W&C Scott were pre eminent in that field TH44 |
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The article was called "Make Mine a Side Hammer" by Jack Lott. I have the article, Mike. I forgot about that. It's in a folder on my desk top. Someone from here, sent it to me and I can not remember who it was - some things are just simply - gone! |
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Quote: http://forums.nitroexpress.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=342246&an=&page=0&vc=1 |
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That's it. |
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Nice rifles! Thanks for posting them. Curl |
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Nice thread...keep fueling.. Can never be tired at looking at hammer doublerifles. |