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This here is MY 110-year-old .275 Rigby - AKA 7x57 Mauser...275 Rigby
It was bought back in 1913 in the Army & Navy Cooperative Stores in Great Victoria Street, London, by a family going out to Rhodesia to mine tobacco [whatever]. After Mugabe and his crew started to destroy the country, the family split up - some coming back to UK and others going to neighbouring Tanzania. This lovely little rifle ended up at an auction in Liverpool in 1991, and was bought on my behalf by my old and much-missed gun-store owner Jim Clarke, then-owner of Monks of Chester. Fast forward to about seven years ago, and my current shooting buddy Pedro - seen here - asked about it. An ex-pat Rhodesian, it 'called' to him - you know how things are, right? I explone the origins, and gave him the name of the original owners - heck, quothe he, I went to boarding school in Harare with a guy with that name!
Photos were taken, a littler movie was made, and emails exchanged.
His former school-pal had been taught to shoot with that actual rifle, by his granpa. Just how cool was that?
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