Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters Can We All Stop Calling it the ".275 Rigby"?

I like my 7X57's I love my 275 Rigby

granted I don't like changing words to slum like loopy, bollits and the like.

But its really about the last of things I tend to get worked up over or would post on basically.

Kind of like is the most important thing .gov has on the list is time change issues? Really?

Now boss and I argue over Creek and crik. Quite often. so is it chick or cheek I always ask... lol. And I call it creek and he calls it crik.

Exactly John.

I've had HUNTER on my shelf for years -

Fixt it. 🥴

Wow. That's just beautiful. I'd be afraid to use something like that. It's to nice and doesn't deserve to be dented up.

Language evolves.

Try to make sense of this:

Here bygynneth the Book of the tales of Caunterbury

Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote,
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licóur
Of which vertú engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open ye,
So priketh hem Natúre in hir corages,
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,
And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes,
To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;
And specially, from every shires ende
Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende,
The hooly blisful martir for to seke,
That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke.

Standard language in 1387.




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I'm not about to go through 8 pages of this nonsense.

So in case no one has said it yet.

GFY.

Not entirely germane. Medieval English was all over the map spelling and grammar-wise, and look what the result was. Everybody who put pen to paper had their own code, with no universality whatsoever. I've had to wade through crap like that and it's no joke. There's a very good reason Latin was the written language of scholars and scientists for over a millennia - no uniformity whatsoever in any other common language. It would seem in many respects that we haven't advanced all that much.

Me savvy 'tales of Caunterbury' little bit, you betcha. Me no savvy Big Stick.

Nice:

Highland Stalker

From Rigby’s Campfire web page blog :

Classic calibres and chamberings for sporting rifles by Diggory Hadoke

“Many would argue that the .275 Rigby, an anglicised version of the German 7×57 (AKA 7mm Mauser) is their classic round. It certainly sold in large numbers in the Rigby-Mauser rifles that the firm offered in the years before the outbreak of World War Two. The .275, a bottle-necked case with a long bullet was the choice of many a Scottish deer stalker as well as the, somewhat unconventional option that W.D.M. Bell selected.

The most famous of Rigby’s .275 users is undoubtedly Jim Corbett, who was presented with one in commemoration of his 1907 slaying of a man-eating tiger. He used the rifle to shoot the ‘Man-eating leopard of Rudraprayag’, as well as scores of other animals over the following three decades. Corbett’s rifle now resides in the Rigby collection. “

Queen Elizabeth has one also. She’s pretty famous.

And as long as we've went this far... Which "Boolit" would you guys recommend For game from "Prairie Poodles" to "packyderms" with the occasional "Speed Goat" thrown in... At ranges of, Lets say 10 feet out to 1800 yards with this Rig... B... Or should i just "Fa Gedda Bout It" and "Run" a "Creed"...

All you need is a thuddy thuddy an' some store bought bullets.

One thing I can honestly say, had come to a conclusion on long before this thread. I've either read, and several times been in discussions by posts, and for sure seen and admired many pics of his hunting trips in New Zealand, most I remember I think by backpack or canoe, can't remember all for sure, and in about the past 10 years +-1? But obviously good outdoors trips worthy of sharing, very interesting, and he was obviously always willing to share helpful, or interesting details, and I remember well many different rifles! I often thought seriously "now there's a MAN, that if I could go to New Zealand, what a rewarding experience it would no doubt be to share a hunt, campfire with"!
I have no reason to doubt it!
And now I also don't doubt, concerning a few on this thread,
"Would I want to share----no, no I'm sure of it, no way----
Wait, I know, let's have a spelling contest?
Start without me!
I belive youins is of the sort, you'd put the crown of thorns on an A GOOD MAN, drive the nails in his hands, then laugh, spit in his face!
At least you would by text. In reality I believe you nothing but HYPOCRITICAL BSers!
Pee on your campfire!

Wow, I'm at a loss for words ! So, GFY.

I for one like this thread... And i'm glad the OP started it... It has given me a good laugh and has been Interesting and entertaining... And judging by 8 pages it has been very successful and the OP should be proud of it... Now if any of ya'll wanna poke some fun with some Quotes that turn my stomach... Here they are..."Good to Go"... "And your Golden"... "Life Got in the Way"...

Totally !

Awesome !

Uber !

And the now, Perfect !

one hole all day!

Of course it’s not German, dumbass, it’s Middle English.


Damn.




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