I thought everyone would enjoy some fun this Friday morning! At the very start, I know there will be haters for what I bought but that is absolutely okay given everyone has their own opinion which I greatly respect...it is what makes our forum great! The following are the details...please read all of them so you understand my great clarity...forgive me in advance for my drawn out description, explanation and pictures.
BACKGROUND
I love DR's with a great passion and seem to eat them like potato chips! lol!!!
I also love and require beautiful full engraving, gold preferred and gold animals if I can afford and get them.
High quality stock grades is another requirement of mine...just love high quality wood!!!
However, the rifle has to be checked out by the best mechanically for me and it has to be an excellent shooter otherwise all the above is worthless.
I fully understand that all the above except for the mechanical portion is not for most people and that is fine...beauty is in the eyes of the beholder certainly...many see the exact same beauty in very plain no engraving DR's with clean lines to them which I respect greatly.
Last but not least...I am not a collector in any way...I take all my rifles hunting in Africa and if they get scratched it just adds character and memories for me...while I take better care of my rifles than anything I own...I do not baby them...I hunt with them!!! It only matters if the rifle fits my wants in the way I define them as in the above.
RIFLE
I bought a John Rigby Best Rifle made by Robles CA in 470 NE from an estate sale that was on consignment. The estate said it had been fired only about 10 times by the owner.
BACKGROUND
I love DR's with a great passion and seem to eat them like potato chips! lol!!!
I also love and require beautiful full engraving, gold preferred and gold animals if I can afford and get them.
High quality stock grades is another requirement of mine...just love high quality wood!!!
However, the rifle has to be checked out by the best mechanically for me and it has to be an excellent shooter otherwise all the above is worthless.
I fully understand that all the above except for the mechanical portion is not for most people and that is fine...beauty is in the eyes of the beholder certainly...many see the exact same beauty in very plain no engraving DR's with clean lines to them which I respect greatly.
Last but not least...I am not a collector in any way...I take all my rifles hunting in Africa and if they get scratched it just adds character and memories for me...while I take better care of my rifles than anything I own...I do not baby them...I hunt with them!!! It only matters if the rifle fits my wants in the way I define them as in the above.
RIFLE
I bought a John Rigby Best Rifle made by Robles CA in 470 NE from an estate sale that was on consignment. The estate said it had been fired only about 10 times by the owner.
- It has a Grade 8 stock
- It has gold engraving throughout the rifle
- It has a gold lion, gold elephant and gold cape buffalo.
- The gun fits my LOP perfectly.
- It weighs 13 pounds...yes I know many people will say that is too heavy...however, for the past two years every time I do my power walk which is 5 days per week, I carry a 15 pound cardio bar in the African carry or in my hands simulating exactly what I do on my Africa hunts so 13 pounds is okay to me...each of my power walks is a minimum of 6 miles some times 10 so I am prepared...since I do them year round, in GA the heat index climbs to 110 degrees so while it is not easy and I do not want to pretend it is nothing prepares me better for any type weather I have encountered in Africa.
- The front and back sights are the best I have used...very easy to both align and see...it is my intent to hunt my elephant in April with my iron sights versus a red dot if I can...we will see over the next two months how doable my vision is for this.
- TO BE CRYSTAL CLEAR, RIGHT NEXT TO THE GOLD JOHN RIGBY ON THE TOP RIB IS CLEARLY ENGRAVED ROBLES CA SO NO ONE WOULD EVER CONFUSE THE CA RIGBY WITH ONE BUILT IN LONDON.
- Without saying exactly what I paid for the rifle, if you go onto the Rigby London website and look at their double rifles in 470 just the stock version with no special engraving or further stock upgrade there rifles are beautiful to begin with I paid only 13% of what the London Rigby cost so as I have said before on here...like a wall street stock where all is known about it, the price reflects the value...make no mistake...the cost of my new rifle was still a very pretty penny and certainly the most I have spent by far for any of my previous DR's.
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I was fairly confident your new purchase would be a .470 because the your last one was listed for sale without reloading components!
