Please don’t apologize. What country are you from?
I wish I could afford a .450 by Rigby after years of saving at your age.
I am from Bangladesh. Luckily , most people in Bangladesh are very pro- hunting and we have yearly deer and duck seasons here .
But my family is into the shipping business , so l got the travel the world a lot , before l became a lawyer and decided to settle down in my home land. I still visit Africa every Year , with my Maternal Grandfather who is a passionate hunter ( even at the age of 75 , he fires a 12 bore Paradox , without even flinching or showing any signs of recoil ).
Regarding my .450 NE by Rigby , l got extremely lucky. That gun belonged to a local Landlord here from the 1930s ( During British Colonial Era ) . After he died , his Great Grand children were selling off his things in 2016. The kids didn't have any idea that they were selling off a double rifle. They thought they were selling off a Double barrelled side by side shotgun , and so they priced it stupidly cheap
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. I had a good look at the gun one day and saw that it is in perfect working order ( with the original gun case too !
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) . It might have been immoral of me not to correct them on what an expensive handmade beauty they were selling , but l did the only thing any reasonable sensible guy will do in that situation. I bought the gun for the Bangladeshi equivalent of 950 pounds
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I immediately bought some Hornady ammunition for my .450 NE and took it to our local shooting club to try it out.
In many ways , l like my vintage gun more than the currently made Rigby Double rifles . Currently Rigby doesn't make rifles in .450 NE anymore. They only make them in .450/400 NE , which has a little less stopping power than the .450 NE ( from what l have read , anyway ) . The gun works exceptionally , and the only damage to the gun , was that the leather on the gun case was rotting when l bought it . I easily rectified that problem , by finding a good leather worker who restored my guncase perfectly.
One thing does worry me , though . My fire arms instructor told me that many old Big game rifles have the rifling in them wear out after years of use. Till now , l put 46 rounds through that gun and it works perfectly , but sometimes l worry about what to do if my .450 NE's rifling wears out
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