Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Deer Hunting Chital and the .275 Rigby

It probably would, but I have the original Ingwe Special for that.

So the new Rigby is an Ingwe wanna be, not the real deal?

DF

Exactly! Or as Ingwe would say, "Exactamundo!"

Right! There is only one Ingwe Special, and Mike has it!.....

There are 250 of the limited run .275 Rigby Africans....pretty common....

NICE! first rate nutrition right there, and a hell of a lot of fun to try and sneak up on!

Great meeting up with you, ingwe. Glad to see you got another! Come back sometime, there's more where that one came from!

Thanks for hooking me up! And for being the genuine article, like most other 'Fire members I've met up with...

Ohhhh, and sorry I ruined one of your good knives using it an a hatchet!

Nice Axis. When I was a kid the 7mm & 8mm Mauser were pretty common as a kids first deer rifle. I think you could get them from the NRA for about 20 bucks. I am sure there are some old redneck geezers out there still using them. But You used the 275 Rigby not the plebeian 7 Mauser, so still a royal stag.

Yep, Rigby kill'em deader, for sure.

+1 on Royal Stag...

DF

Wow dude you suck.

Lovely buck and sharp piece there.

Jolly good show old chap!!!

Do you think they are a bit tougher than they used to be?

They are DEFINITELY tougher than they used to be. I tried them when they first came out and it was disastrous...only our Mule Deer and Steve Timm here were eventually ( 25 years later...) able to talk me into trying them again. They have been superb performers on the 7 or 8 head of game Ive used them on. ( A couple with the 95 NBT in a .243 and five with the .275...150 NBT)

Same for the Ruger #1's in .275 Rigby a couple years ago. Mine on the other hand.....

I'm shooting that bullet in my 7x64 and haven't caught one yet. All have exited on pigs and fallow deer.

I caught one on that first Axis...he was running straight at me from 50 yards..entrance was low on the neck, it traveled down the spine to behind the shoulders and was pretty well in a number of pieces by then. The deer of course piled up immediately. All others have been pass thrus even including a #300 Aoudad that caught one through the shoulder...he went straight down too....and the bullet kept on going.

Dinner last night chital backstrap wrapped in bacon and fired up on the grill.

Before:


After:


Tom, I do appreciate the meat!

I had Chital backstop last night too!

Will trade you some meat from a rutting mule deer for some from a rutting axis!

Another Ballistic Tip tale from Texas. A couple years ago my friend and fellow gun writer Terry Wieland was going on an aoudad hunt, and his guide was one of those who recommend a .375 H&H. Terry is not afraid of the .375 (his favorite dangerous-game round is the .458 Lott) but he'd been shooting a nifty little .250 Savage, and it shot so well with 100-grain Ballistic Tips he wanted to bring it. He asked me what I thought, and I gave him some real-life examples of how the .257 100-grain worked on a few animals. He took the .250-3000 and made a 1-shot kill on a big ram at close to 300 yards, which went less than 50 yards after the little BT entered just behind the shoulder.

Yeah John...I know exactly what you mean. Texans seem to think you need big guns. Amongst other things I shot my first Oryx ( and my second...) against the wishes of my guide, with the .223AI. Conversation went like this:

Guide: " You need at LEAST at .270..."

Me: " Have you ever seen me lose a head of game?"

Guide: " Ive never hunted with you before..."

Me: " So...that would be a 'no'..."


I eventually shot a third Oryx elsewhere, again against the wishes of my guide, with a bigger gun...a .243

Killed my biggest Aoudad to date with a 6.8 spc and a 95 gr. bullet....


Stories like this...I got a million of them....









and BTW: I'm SURE I owe you some Axis...so you'll have to come up and I'll cook it for you!