The Wonder Of Wellies
Shooting Times & Country|March 15,2017

At IWA OutdoorClassics in Nuremberg, Patrick Galbraith gets sidetracked by sartorial temptations, a dainty woodcock gun and the mighty new Blaser F16.

C.Peters
The Wonder Of Wellies

I spent most of my childhood shooting geese with a Remington .45,” announced the moustachioed Texan. I took another sip of damsongin, which a jolly girl selling jackets on the British Game Fair stand had poured me, and put the pistol down. “The best”, apparently, “for pig hunting”.

Regrettably, I couldn’t stick around to listen to more tales of toppling the world’s biggest beasts with absurdly inappropriate firearms, as I had a date to keep with one of the brightest young things in the world of rifles. At the Rigby stand, the tone was a little different; glasses of scotch sat on an antique table surrounded by old leather armchairs and a man was playing the bagpipes. The Highland Stalker, which I was there to talk to managing director Marc Newton about, had been launched only that morning. The stylish gun draws on Rigby’s illustrious heritage but at £6,495 it is the company’s most reasonable rifle to date. In response to popular demand it is also available in a range of calibres to suit the big game hunter and roe stalker alike. 

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