Rifle Project

[texas]

What type of 416 Rigby do you have?

Hornaday has the custom dies for $119 if I remember right, you can find out more info on it by looking at the 10th edition of CoTW.

Like I said I'll be using mine next Sep in Africa, at last count 34 one shot kills over there

 

[Jim Maloney]

It's a Ruger M77 in .416 Rigby. It's a stock rifle, no upgrades yet, and you know you can't be caught hunting with a stock rifle, it just can't be done.

Jim

 

[texas]

Maybe you can't be caught with a stock rifle, BUT DON'T MESS WITH THAT RUGER!!!!!!!

Keep or sell it but please don't mess with it. I'm not a Ruger man by any chance. If you sell it you could buy a CZ 550 or just the action, a new barrel and stock besides there aren't that many smiths that will work on them.

 

[D.P.]

Q-Optics
The Tembo sounds like it will work well on Cape. Hell the old 375 H&H is often looked at as light, but easy to shoot and place a good shot. I dont know much about the two guns in one. But if you are hunting Cape (my .2) I would wait until you return to think about the conversion. A DGR rifle in my opinion has one purpose and has to do three things, function! function! and function! I would trust the PH but not rely on him or her. I dont like seeing open sights through my low power scope. But if your PH lets you get up front on a wounded animal I would want to pull the scope and go open sights. If you go with a scope only I would use a fixed or low power that even on the high end you can make a Quick short shot. Although chances are he will not charge, I would hate to be trying to find him when the scope was left on a higher setting by accident he might not wait for you to get ready!

A low end of 1.5x woud be nice, left on 1.5x if needed you can always power up.