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Marrakai
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Rigby Anniversary Ducks
      #393398 - 13/09/25 01:36 PM

Rigby's 250th Anniversary inspired a recent hunt with a .275 Mauser for boars, and I was able to follow that up with a morning at the local goose swamp yesterday accompanied by the Rigby Rising Bite sidelock in my custody.

Still too much water about, with virtually none of the normal magpie goose flight paths setting up as yet.
Occupied my usual early-season spot from first light till well after sunrise but left with clean barrels.

Went looking for some whistle duck action before bailing altogether, and finally found a few birds still flying near the furthest boundary of the reserve.
Managed to bag a brace before things shut down completely as the day began to heat up.



Even this meagre bag was most satisfying as my first field results with such a marvelous example of Rigby's best workmanship from just shy of 140 years ago!
Even in 1887 it was Rigby's 369th rising bite double going by the patent use number on the action.

Now that I've worked out what's going on out at the swamps, I'll give the newly-acquired Jeffery game gun a run on ducks next time and wait for more consistent goose flighting before burning through any more of my bismuth twos!

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Re: Rigby Anniversary Ducks [Re: Marrakai]
      #393399 - 13/09/25 08:13 PM

Pretty ducks and a lovely shotgun.

Enjoyable to read your short story.

What's the weight of your Jeffery 12b Game gun again? And choking? Shooting goose load no 2s.

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Re: Rigby Anniversary Ducks [Re: NitroX]
      #393420 - 15/09/25 07:33 AM

Nice Marrakai. Shotgun is beautiful. I am also interested in which loads you use on Geese?

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Re: Rigby Anniversary Ducks [Re: Claydog]
      #393438 - 16/09/25 06:56 AM

Great Shotgun and a good way to celebrate Rigby's 250 Anniversary.

Edited by Rule303 (16/09/25 06:57 AM)

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Marrakai
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Re: Rigby Anniversary Ducks [Re: Rule303]
      #393444 - 16/09/25 04:33 PM

Thanks gentlemen.

Clay: my load for the 2 1/2 inch chambered Rigby is an ounce of bismuth twos in a 1 1/4 oz Win AA wad over 24 gr WSF, snugly fitted into a shortened Winchester compression formed case, roll-crimped with a vintage tool.

For the recently acquired Jeffery game gun with 2 3/4 chambers I am loading an ounce of bismuth shot in a WinAA 1 1/8 oz wad over 23 gr WSF, star-crimped in the normal way. Hoping that will be under 7000 psi max. That gun is nitro proof but probably only for 3 tons given its age.

Back in the early years of bismuth I used 25gr WSF under 1 1/16 oz of #2 shot in the 1 1/4 wad (2 3/4 case) for ~1300 fps, guessing it to be around 8000 psi. The Cashmore sidelock fowler I used exclusively back then digested that load volume-shooting year after year without a bleat.

When steel shot finally evolved into something useful, I used RC Steel and/or Rio Royal, the latter my all-time favorite, followed by Remington Nitro Steel when Rio became unavailable. ...in the cylinder-choked Greener Empire of course.

The original Rio Royal and Remington Nitro Steel shells were roll-crimped 2 3/4 cases with a fragmenting hard-plastic over-shot wad, 36 and 35 grams respectively. Sadly, both are now star-crimped and have dropped a gram or two of shot to accommodate the crimp.
[Damn: where's the "bawling my eyes out" emoji...?]

Bit of an essay, apologies, really warrants a separate thread.

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