The .416 Rigby Big Game rifle is available on a double square bridge action, and offers professional and sporting hunters a more moderately priced alternative to our London Best custom rifles.
With its lightweight 24-inch barrel, this rifle is ideally suited for a telescopic sight. The horizontal Winchester-style safety catch accommodates a variety of scope-mounting systems on the machined action bridges. The weight of this rifle is 10 pounds, unloaded, and the length of pull, including the red rubber recoil pad, is 14½”.
This rifle features a stunning, extremely high detailed elephant engraving on the floor plate, which features white gold inlaid tusks created by the legendary Rigby engraving, Geoffrey Lignon.
A century and more ago, Mauser made barreled bolt-actions for Rigby and shipped them to London, where they were assembled, finished and proofed by Rigby craftsmen. Today, in an echo of halcyon days before the Great War, Rigby have resumed this arrangement with Mauser for their new range of Big Game rifles, making beautiful yet affordable rifles for use around the world.
In its plant in Isny, Mauser is again building its much-copied but never bettered original Magnum bolt action, which it originally created in 1899 specifically for John Rigby. Today, just as was done a more than a century ago, barrelled actions are supplied by Mauser, then assembled into superb hand-finished rifles by master craftsmen at the Rigby workshop in London. Like the originals, these rifles carry London proof marks. Many aspects of the original rifle, including the much admired and copied extractor and the three-position flag safety, have been retained.
Features and Specifications:
- Serial # - 11337
- Calibre - .416 Rigby
- Barrel Length - 24" Lightweight
- Magazine Capacity - 4+1
- Three Position Wing Safety
- Traditional Rigby Pattern Iron Sights (Regulated for 65, 150, 250 Yards)
- Grade 5 Turkish Walnut Stock as Standard
- Single Trigger
- Weight - Approximately 10lbs (4.5kg)
- Stock Length - 14 ½" (including recoil pad)
