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Rigby-Mauser in .275 (7x57).  Transition small ring Mauser 98 intermediate action. Rigby cocking-piece peep sight and rear open sight with folding leaves and ladder. Receiver marked "Waffenfabrik Mauser Oberndorf 1898." According to serial number the rifle was built in 1900. Barrel engraved "John Rigby and Son 72 St. James's St. London." Bore is worn. Stock in poor condition.

First, I need to replace the stock.

See photos (more soon).

I restored this small ring transitional .275 a few years ago and took a pattern from it. I might be able to run a copy for you next winter if you can't find anything before then.

SKB,
I need an inleted blank for my 1898 transitional 7x57 Rigby, would it move the schedule up if you have an order for two blanks at the same time?
Mike

Hi Mike, no it wouldn't. I have a bunch of work to complete before Sept. 1st, then I revert to being a upland bum chasing bird dogs across the prairie and my time in the shop until the season ends is somewhat limited. The focus returns to shop work on Feb the 1st.
Steve

Those are both lovely rifles. Waterwolf, please keep us updated on the project!

I realized that the stock that is now on the rifle could not be the original stock. It is too poor a fit, both in the floorplate and the tang area as well as the barrel..(see photos) It may be an old Rigby stock, but it is not the one that originally came with the rifle. So it can't serve as a pattern for duplication without a lot of rebedding.

Sure it can, use release agent on the metal, mix up some bondo or epoxy and fill those voids. Thats how they do it in the NFL…

I've glass-bedded plenty of difficult stocks but it's a lot of work (the inletting is a major mess) just to make a pattern, especially since I intend this to be a budget restoration. An intermediate length small ring Mauser like this early Rigby can drop into a Swedish Mauser 96 stock with only minor alterations...and there are Swede 96 sporters with good walnut stocks very similar to the early Rigby stock all over the place these days...at least here In Canada...so that's probably the route I'll take for starters.

I would gladly buy that stock from you to use as a pattern for a 275 Rigby project I have.

I'm in Canada and unfortunately the USA government has recently made it so difficult and complicated to ship anything, even a book, to the USA that I have given up sending anything south.