African Hunting Gazette

The Shikari Rifle

Rifles In Africa

The Highland Stalker came on the back of the success of the Big Game, the first new model the company had launched under Marc Newton, five years earlier.

Both these Mauser action magazine rifles sold (and still sell) well, proving there is significant public appetite for new models that are modern iterations of the classics. In 10 years, Rigby has sold over a thousand Big Game and Highland Stalkers to hunters and collectors all over the globe.

That is a significant number of new rifles. In fact, Rigby currently sells more rifles most months than any other British manufacturer sells in a year.

The formula works, of taking a classic model, one for which the company is renowned, the vintage examples of which are keenly collected and revered and recreating it with 21st-century

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