.416 owners, the ultimate big game hunting cartridge?

Depends what you’re after. If you appreciate mechanical art and sculpture they’re without peer, and they’re free or even profitable to own if bought used as they generally appreciate as mine did. What’s not to like about that? :)

They’re a window into another time when things were done by hand, and nothing less than perfection was an acceptable result. The antithesis to the production Winchesters and Mausers I replaced them with for practicality. While I owned both concurrently, I carried a Merkel 140AE .375 far more, for its utilitarian German qualities; I could and did use it hard, and put it away wet.

I found I liked guns that lead me to adventure, and affordable ones allowed more of the money that was safely appreciating in them to be squandered on adventures. In the end, can take adventures to the grave, and I don’t live a lifestyle that bodes well for making it to being old in a study appreciating expensive and rare things.

In the end, I can only nod with appreciation at the Rigby on the wall, and can say whoever buys it won’t lose on it if they’re patient. In fact they’ll probably sell or trade it for $25,000 worth in ten years time.

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The buyer of that gun may not re-sell it as easily as you think. If the next prospective buyer asks for any provenance, and the owner truthfully begins telling how he wandered into a Canadian Tire to buy some light bulbs and walked out with a $17,000 Rigby...it may not add to his credibility...:)
 
Ardent said:
Not a lotta guys would turn down Michelle Monaghan because the guy she just broke up with met her at a dive bar.
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I'm too old for this thread; I have no idea who that is, but from context I will assume she is some super-hottie?

But...if you met her in some skanky establishment...would you thank your lucky stars? Or...would there be some tiny lingering doubt in your mind that she wasn't what she seemed. Maybe not the real Michelle Monaghan? Or maybe even a recent Michael Monaghan?

If something seems too good to be true...


I bought a Sharps 1874 for a decent price on the EE one time. It can with the correct Old Reliable stamped on the barrel...a few inches away from the Made In Italy stamp...
 
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