For Sale Custom Dakota 416 Rigby

[Ontario Hunter]

No, I was correct. Selby's rifle was built on a standard Mauser action, not a magnum action.

 

[flatwater bill]

Ya, Dakota's magnum action was better suited to this cartridge....always wondered how Selby found a gunsmith that would or could open up a standard 98 to the monster 416 Rigby, and why it didn't ever "unwind" on a hot African afternoon. Beautiful rifle..............GLWS.......FWB

 

[QuailyBirds]

Price drop to $6,900 with the rings and ammo/bullets

 

[Shako Badhan]

Ya, Dakota's magnum action was better suited to this cartridge....always wondered how Selby found a gunsmith that would or could open up a standard 98 to the monster 416 Rigby, and why it didn't ever "unwind" on a hot African afternoon. Beautiful rifle..............GLWS.......FWB

From what I understand Shelby’s rifle was built by Rigby and went out to Kenya in 416. I guess spur of the moment’s purchase do sometimes work out, that one certainly did for him.

Beautiful rifle, good luck with the sale.

 

[Ontario Hunter]

From what I understand Shelby’s rifle was built by Rigby and went out to Kenya in 416. I guess spur of the moment’s purchase do sometimes work out, that one certainly did for him.

Beautiful rifle, good luck with the sale.

Right. He bought it that way. Didn't have to find a gunsmith to do it. Magnum actions were hard to find postwar so the big English makers were building on anything they could get their hands on. Selby did call it an "old gun" when he bought it in a pinch after a friend drove over his double rifle. Implies it was well used at that time. In a late life interview he mentioned at one point he sent it to Rigby to be rebarreled and had to switch to another rifle. Interesting that though Selby shot left-handed, he still preferred the right-handed converted military Mauser to his double rifle. I guess he felt those extra two rounds in the gun were more important than firing fast with two triggers. At least the standard action would have cycled a bit faster than magnum length. However, the recoil must have been brutal.

 

[QuailyBirds]

Sold

 

[CZDiesel]

Beautiful rifle you have sold! The buyer must be very happy to add it to his collection…
To the seller and buyer, there was a question as to what wood the fore end cap was made of? It looks to be Ebony, Macassar Ebony to be exact…
I highly doubt that a build of that level used Rosewood? But I could be wrong?

Ebony forend tip

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