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Speaking of Brevex Mausers
SCOUT5
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Nononsense and Perry Shooter, you boys were talking about these the other day.
http://www.GunBroker.com/item/611345549
Starts at just 65K
http://www.GunBroker.com/item/611345549
Starts at just 65K
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The BRNO 602 is a cheaper knock off.
Too old to live...too young to die...
I re-read the description more carefully after a couple of hours of sleep:
quote:HANDLOADS: partial box of .378 Weatherby Magnum formed to .416 Rigby with Jack's handwritten (faint) loading information.
I've heard of some strange techniques for making some cases but this one doesn't ring true even for the highly touted Jack O'Connor.[B)]
Given the cost of a Brevex these days and the current costs of building a rifle such as this you're looking at about $50,000.00 of 'The Provenance'.
While I enjoyed much of his writing, Jack O'Connor was simply a great salesman, like so many of the writers from the 50', 60's and 70's. As a result they were often granted 'larger-than-life' status by readers carried away by the nostalgia that they peddled regarding all their hunting trips to places we could only dreamed of.
In my opinion, I would spend the $15,000.00 on a fabulous big game rifle by one of the contemporary gunmakers and use the other $50,000.00 for a couple of great trips to Africa.
Best.
I am guessing the story would be cheaper when it comes out on DVD [:D]
"Fools learn from their own mistakes. I learn from the mistakes of others"
Otto von Bismarck
SCOUT5,
I re-read the description more carefully after a couple of hours of sleep:
quote:HANDLOADS: partial box of .378 Weatherby Magnum formed to .416 Rigby with Jack's handwritten (faint) loading information.
I've heard of some strange techniques for making some cases but this one doesn't ring true even for the highly touted Jack O'Connor.[B)]
Given the cost of a Brevex these days and the current costs of building a rifle such as this you're looking at about $50,000.00 of 'The Provenance'.
While I enjoyed much of his writing, Jack O'Connor was simply a great salesman, like so many of the writers from the 50', 60's and 70's. As a result they were often granted 'larger-than-life' status by readers carried away by the nostalgia that they peddled regarding all their hunting trips to places we could only dreamed of.
In my opinion, I would spend the $15,000.00 on a fabulous big game rifle by one of the contemporary gunmakers and use the other $50,000.00 for a couple of great trips to Africa.
Best.
Yes, those stories where large to me when I was a kid and Jack O'Connor was a good writer. Heck, I can still only dream of some of those places. I liked him but I can't afford a $15,000 rifle yet alone the $50,000 of "hey look what I got". I just hope to take the .375 I just picked up on a moose hunt some day.
I was looking at .416 rifles last night, for what ever reason, when I ran across that and remembered the other thread about the actions. I need a .416 like I need another ex-wife, well I could get my money back on the .416 and it probably wouldn't kick as hard.
quote: I need a .416 like I need another ex-wife, well I could get my money back on the .416 and it probably wouldn't kick as hard.
Horse feathers! We all need a matched pair of .375 H&H and a .416 Rigby. I'm not sure about the comparison for recoil but the Rigby can be a very reasonable 'push' when compared to the sharper 'smack' of newer high power cartridges such as the Weatherbys or worse, the .470 Nitro Express in a double rifle!
While I am enamored with the traditional big bore African cartridges, I am also deeply connected to the smaller big game cartridges such as the .350 Rigby, .333 Jeffery and the .275 Rigby HV (High Velocity). Sometimes these can be found at a more manageable price than the those cartridges so heavily attached to the African experience.
Be that as it may, most of us will always wonder about those experiences with the nostalgic rifles in places we will likely never see. Live each of your hunting experiences like it is the very best of the historic hunts documented and lauded by those writers of yesteryear.
Best.
....and the ubiquitous 4-power scope of the era.
Weaver 2.5x scope.