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Safari Express rifle pic thread
This is my '20s Springer 9.3X74r- 416rigby
- Post #527
- Forum: The Great Outdoors
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Safari Express rifle pic thread
Posted this rifle here before but the spirits were with me and while going thru old papers I found the missing "letter". Sent from the PH to his broker and forwarded on to me shortly after I purchased the rifle some 25 years ago.- 416rigby
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- Forum: The Great Outdoors
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How the classy hunter goes afield...
On the left a newer Searcy 470 NE on the right a 20's Johann Springer 9.3X74R- 416rigby
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- Forum: The Great Outdoors
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How the classy hunter goes afield...
The wife and I ready for the veldt.- 416rigby
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- Forum: The Great Outdoors
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Safari Express rifle pic thread
When I took up Celestial Navigation I learned there are only 2 correct places for one's sextant, in one's own hand and in the case. For my rifles the same rules apply.- 416rigby
- Post #414
- Forum: The Great Outdoors
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Safari Express rifle pic thread
Off to the veldt today for some load testing. I'm pushing 68 but my VA Doc says not to put off gettin' stuff Ya like, got quite a bit of Dioxin in my old system.- 416rigby
- Post #406
- Forum: The Great Outdoors
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Safari Express rifle pic thread
A 9.3X74r fits the bill of not too big not too small. Full patch nearly the same ballistics as the .375 H&H and the long slim case can be loaded down as low as Ya want to go. Prvi Partizan jacked bullets are only about .35 ea, and there is always hard cast even cheaper. My 1920s Springer was...- 416rigby
- Post #404
- Forum: The Great Outdoors
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Safari Express rifle pic thread
Top, my new Searcy 470 NE. Yet to shoot it, some of my reloading stuff must be caught in the great back East snow storm hahah Bottom my 1920 Yohann Springer 9.3X74r. I had great luck in developing a regulating load, second try and it shoots as good as I can hold at 50yds. Hope the 470 goes as...- 416rigby
- Post #400
- Forum: The Great Outdoors
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Your favorite movie quotes
"He even took the gramophone on safari. Three rifles, supplies for a month and Mozart." "you've changed your hair"- 416rigby
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Peaky Blinders -- The Clothes
What really comes home to this old soldier is the un ashamed recognition and acceptance of severe PTSD- 416rigby
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- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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Peaky Blinders -- The Clothes
Just post WWI what a grand look!- 416rigby
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Safari Express rifle pic thread
.416 Rigby, Ruger RSM with extensive home action and wood work and home grown rear site.- 416rigby
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- Forum: The Great Outdoors
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Safari Express rifle pic thread
1920 Johann Springer 9.3 X 74r double- 416rigby
- Post #396
- Forum: The Great Outdoors
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Safari Express rifle pic thread
FN Browning .375 H&H Spent 15 years in Africa as a loner rifle.- 416rigby
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- Forum: The Great Outdoors
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Redtails WW2 Movie showcases repro Flight Jackets
I always have to grin at the fierce and many times agressive "brand loyalty" shown by the lads here. Best not name names if Ya can help it when discussing repo stuff hahahaha- 416rigby
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- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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Ribbons...
Some truths Cardigan, one may find that there are some "laws" that may not be on the books but are regularly enforced on the streets and one of those in my world is the Stolen Valor Act! Our WWII Fathers and Grandfathers are usually quite tolerent of bad taste in the relm of flag etiquette... -
Ribbons...
The only way Partisipating in an organised re enactment or display, fine---Hanger dance dosen't qualify, otherwise there is only one way for it to be correct. -
What Dad's might have looked like---
Well used ELC house, replaced lining, warm water + Woollite twice to remove aftershave- 416rigby
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Safari Express rifle pic thread
For all of us "wish we were a PH types" remember, your favorite 7X57 Mauser is also your favorite .275 Rigby. As early as 1907, John Rigby adopted it, calling it the .275 Rigby after the English fasion of naming cartridges by land rather than grove or bullet diameter.- 416rigby
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- Forum: The Great Outdoors
