What Is Your Dream Rifle?

[Challer]

Take that same rifle and get 416/500 and 20G barrels in addition to 9.3 and you’re set.

 

[Daniel Cary]

A No.1

 

[Mopani]

I so understand that, I feel the same way about my Heym, you want to immerse yourself in it. I see you have fitted a scope, do you always hunt with the scope? What have you taken with it?

Due to my age I won‘t see open sights anymore, that‘s why I always use scopes, in this case a Zeiss 1.1-4x24, recticle 4.

With this rifle I haven‘t taken much. Because now I‘m living in the Western Cape with not much hunting nearby. Bevor my home was the Limpopo province, to me the nicest South African province. Then I hunted with a 9.3x62 which is a twin to the 9.3x74R.

Some kudu bulls, plenty of busbuck and lots of bushpig plus a couple of warthog. With the Krieghoff I wanted to shoot buffalo, but that‘s another story…

 

[geoff rath]

A No.1

Onnly one No !?

 

[geoff rath]

Onnly one No !?

That's like Bob Nelson having only one 35 caliber rifle ...

 

[GeorgeGibbs505]

Tony Sanchez Arino’s Hollis 577 Nitro double. That would be a dream rifle.

 

[Tokoloshe Safaris]

Well, it has to be beautiful in form. It has to be utterly functional and 100% reliable. It must be balanced, and come up well every time. It has to be in a classic cartridge that can tell it's own story, and it cant cost the earth, so the dream can come true.
My choice boils down to either a Heym 98B double in 450/400, or a Ruger No1, red recoil pad model, in 450/400.
The Heym would have case hardening colours and a grade 5 walnut stock with dark rich colour to set off its intended British lines. The Ruger No1, just as it came out of the factory.

And the winner is...... the Ruger No1, the most beautiful rifle ever built that delivers of its best every time and asks only that you do your part.

Hi Kevin, Ruger 1? You surprise me. I am not knocking the Ruger #1, but you surprised me.

 

[Kevin Peacocke]

Hi Kevin, Ruger 1? You surprise me. I am not knocking the Ruger #1, but you surprised me.

Hi Lon, as you know after I wrote that I got the Heym too, 89b, sorry for the typo. I love it also, so I would now rank it and the No1 as a tie in this contest, which says a lot for that little rifle.

 

[Daniel Cary]

Found one. Not going to buy it anyway .. little scuffed, though touched up in most pics.
Still, this would be the one! Here ya go ...
https://www.gunsinternational.com/g...s-quot-the-buffalo-quot-.cfm?gun_id=102050676

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

That's like Bob Nelson having only one 35 caliber rifle ...

@geoff rath
After I sell my AI I will only have one 35. If you have a good 35 be it a 35 marlin, 358 win, 35Whelen or 358 Norma you don't need no more, BUT the Whelen covers all the 35 areas.

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

@geoff rath
After I sell my AI I will only have one 35. If you have a good 35 be it a 35 marlin, 358 win, 35Whelen or 358 Norma you don't need no more, BUT the Whelen covers all the 35 areas.

No love for the .35 rem Bob?

 

[robtattoo]

If i could own any rifle in the world, money no object, I'd be very hard pressed not to give an obscene amount of money for this beauty......

I've been in love with it since i saw the first picture & started reading about it.

A really close second (joking aside, hands down my No1 choice) would be a Westley Richards magazine rifle in either 9.3x62 or .35 Whelen

 

[Northman]

A Dorleac & Dorleac single shot Hagn in 7x64...

Or a Dorleac & Dorleac double square bridge M98 in 9,3x62

 

[Major Bonkers]

Single shot: Farquharson, ideally Farquharson-Woodward (which would make it a Holland & Holland rifle). Not that worried about calibre, but probably .303.

Double-barrelled: Rigby rising-bite in .470NE. The mechanism does not like African dust.

Magazine: Mannlicher-Schöenauer stutzen (full length stock) in 6.5x54. I used to own one of these; the finest sporting magazine rifle ever built. Why can't someone with a CNC machine restart making these actions?

Paradox: I did vaguely inquire at Rigby of the price of an additional set of barrels, the idea being to fit them to the .470 and have them in a paradox form. A price of around £25,000 was indicated. That, incidentally, is about twice as much as Hollands will charge you.

 

[Brian Rothhammer]

A Dorleac & Dorleac single shot Hagn in 7x64...

Or a Dorleac & Dorleac double square bridge M98 in 9,3x62

You'll not go wrong with anything from Joel Dorleac.

 

[crs]

It is with a bit of a let down that I admit that I just recently acquired my last "dream" rifle. My second and last big bore custom double rifle: This Beretta based .458 2.4 inch DR with 26 inch barrels:

Regulation holds tight out to 100 yards and beyond. MV up in .458 WIN Mag range.
My other DR is a 24 inch .405 WCF based on a Simson Co Suhl double. Equal to 450/400 performance.
I also have a lever action rifle in each caliber both of which have been proven in Africa and America.

Now to concentrate on hunting them all! Another Nilgai coming up!

Sorry Kevin, but no more new rifles for me. With luck though, maybe some good hunting stories.

 

[Huvius]

Single shot: Farquharson, ideally Farquharson-Woodward (which would make it a Holland & Holland rifle). Not that worried about calibre, but probably .303.

You are not wrong that the Holland-Woodward rifles are very beautiful!

Here are two I am lucky to have:

500/450:

35Win:

But, I have to say, I think the most beautiful single shot is the Farquharson made by George Gibbs.

Two of my rifles.

6.5X53R:

And my all time favorite - 461 Gibbs No.2.
This was my dream rifle ever since I was a kid. This rife does not disappoint...

 

[geoff rath]

You are not wrong that the Holland-Woodward rifles are very beautiful!

Here are two I am lucky to have:

500/450:

35Win:

But, I have to say, I think the most beautiful single shot is the Farquharson made by George Gibbs.

Two of my rifles.

6.5X53R:

And my all time favorite - 461 Gibbs No.2.
This was my dream rifle ever since I was a kid. This rife does not disappoint...

 

[VertigoBE]

You are not wrong that the Holland-Woodward rifles are very beautiful!

Here are two I am lucky to have:

500/450:

35Win:

But, I have to say, I think the most beautiful single shot is the Farquharson made by George Gibbs.

Two of my rifles.

6.5X53R:

And my all time favorite - 461 Gibbs No.2.
This was my dream rifle ever since I was a kid. This rife does not disappoint...

Absolutely gorgeous, I too dream of a fine farquharson

 

[njc110381]

I'd struggle to pick a single favourite, but it would have to be a hand made English bolt action in a cartridge developed by the rifle maker. A .375 by Holland & Holland, a .416 by Rigby, and maybe a smaller bore like a .275 Rigby. A double rifle would be nice, but I don't know what. I'd want any of them to have some history behind them. A slightly battered old gun which had belonged to a well known PH would be far nicer than a new one.

I think I can achieve that dream, and it will probably be either a .275 or .416 Rigby. Maybe both.