What do you think of the new Rigby Shikari?

[Daniel Cary]

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The fences look like VC's Round Body ..

 

[rjacobherman]

I went with me three friends who also ordered and got fitted in Oct. We take delivery of 5 Shikari in March.

 

[Tintin]

I went with me three friends who also ordered and got fitted in Oct. We take delivery of 5 Shikari in March.

@rjacobherman

The most expensive pair of cufflinks you've ever bought

I enjoyed your chat with Marc on the podcast.

 

[Cme1983]

I went with me three friends who also ordered and got fitted in Oct. We take delivery of 5 Shikari in March.

Lucky man, I visited Rigby over Thanksgiving and was quoted 5 years for the Shikari.

 

[rjacobherman]

@rjacobherman

The most expensive pair of cufflinks you've ever bought

I enjoyed your chat with Marc on the podcast.

100% the most expensive pair of cufflinks. I wore them New Year's Eve and had the very same thought.

Glad you enjoyed the podcast.

 

[rjacobherman]

Lucky man, I visited Rigby over Thanksgiving and was quoted 5 years for the ShikarWe

I ordered in the first batch of 20 guns. I think I will take delievery right under 3 years.

 

[x84958]

Anyone have pics to share of their new Shikari?

 

[pc3]

Folks how does the Shikari fair for durability and strength with the Heym 89b?

 

[Spearhead]

Kevin, here is my sincere reply to your question. I saved and bought a Blaser R8 pro as I am left handed. I LOVE a fantastic grade of wood stock, but I hunt and want to hunt as much as I can afford. I am not the target audience for that rifle. I prefer my switch barrel grunt gun. I just want to hunt, meet people and have experiences within my budget.

 

[hoytcanon]

Kevin, here is my sincere reply to your question. I saved and bought a Blaser R8 pro as I am left handed. I LOVE a fantastic grade of wood stock, but I hunt and want to hunt as much as I can afford. I am not the target audience for that rifle. I prefer my switch barrel grunt gun. I just want to hunt, meet people and have experiences within my budget.

You should bought an NEF Handi Rifle... you could have hunted even more.

 

[festuscat]

I ordered and received my double rifle years ago so I am out of the loop on the purchasing process.

Do the current makers do initial fitting upon order and then give you the opportunity to shoot the rifle in the white and make adjustments to gun fit,point of aim, balance etc?

 

[spike.t]

Folks how does the Shikari fair for durability and strength with the Heym 89b?

Give it 50 or so years and am sure you will get some correct feedback.....

 

[KJE81]

This version on the Pro Tactical Australia Instagram looks really nice, I thought they would look plainer, might this kind of deep carved engraving be some sort of special edition?

This one below also looks really nice, I have seen this version before but only from the side, this is the first picture I found showing how it looks below the action so to say.

I must confess to be much more fond of coin finished rifles then color case hardened ones.

I guess this one below would be the base version? The other ones looks to be more expensive when it comes to engraving.

 

[Kevin Peacocke]

Folks how does the Shikari fair for durability and strength with the Heym 89b?

I prefer the Heym cross bolt to the Rigby doll' head. Not only do I think it is stronger, but you don't have that exposed vertical hole to collect rain or dirt when the action is open.

 

[KJE81]

Just found another picture, I dont know if anyone here has ordered one cased, they however do look really nice in the Rigby case!

 

[Beck]

Looks like an amazing rifle, given Rigby's reputation I'm sure it functions as well as it looks. If I won the lottery I'd probably own a few super expensive rifles, but alas I didn't pick the winning numbers last week. Unfortunately, I believe guns in this price range will always be out of reach for me, as any money I spend on guns comes out of my overall hunting budget.

I have considered selling my K-Gun in .470 NE in order to raise funds for a Rigby Big game, but have not been able to convince myself to pull the trigger yet.

 

[Kevin Peacocke]

Looks like an amazing rifle, given Rigby's reputation I'm sure it functions as well as it looks. If I won the lottery I'd probably own a few super expensive rifles, but alas I didn't pick the winning numbers last week. Unfortunately, I believe guns in this price range will always be out of reach for me, as any money I spend on guns comes out of my overall hunting budget.

I have considered selling my K-Gun in .470 NE in order to raise funds for a Rigby Big game, but have not been able to convince myself to pull the trigger yet.

Keep your Kreighoff, doubles are a cut above.

 

[Kharn]

The link is here.

Does it have a doll's head extension (there are no photographs of the top of the action)?

Is this NEW? Because that dolls head looks poorly finished or abused/warn, It's just got a really jagged looking curve on both sides that aren't uniform/symmetrical...?

 

[baxterb]

Not too OT I hope, but given how PERFECTLY things can be duplicated with EDM machines, I don't know why builders are not cutting costs that way and bringing prices down on break action guns. One EDM operator told me that anything you use to measure an EDM made object with will itself have more tolerances in it's own manufacture than what you are measuring! I once made a claw mount out of alloy which I then decided to have EDM'ed into tool steel. This was a tight, smoke fitted piece. The EDM duplicate needed no fitting whatsoever and was identically tight. Why do things the old way?

This is most definitely an elephant in the room. EDM simply blows me away. I was in a very big shop with a friend of mine and they showed me a sample of an EDM-cut piece of billet. It was a cube and had a cutout piece in the middle you could remove. When it was together you could not see any sort of kerf. But the mind-blowing part was that the outside contour of the cutout was different on the top than it was on the bottom. Meaning that the shape changed contour from the top to the bottom. I have no idea how they did it but i held it in my hands so i know they did. Unreal.