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[Frostbit]

Westley Richards .600 Nitro Express “The India Rifle” Completed 2013.

We have recently completed a project on which we embarked on 7 years ago. This was to design and build a new model sidelock 600 NE and then to embellish it extravagantly in celebration of the Indian Raj. Completed recently, we first showed the rifle at a small exhibition of the English gunmakers held at The Dorchester Hotel in London in May. More recently we showed this rifle at the CLA GameFair last weekend and received much praise, including that from Paul Brown of “The Brown Brothers”, which is praise indeed.

As a few photographs are now being circulated of this rifle, (which were taken in bad light and on iPhones at the exhibitions), it is time for us to release a few of our own quick efforts for everyone to see this new and unique rifle, created in our workshops.

The India Rifle will next be exhibited as part of our display at the Safari Club Convention which is to be held at the Mandalay Bay Hotel, Las Vegas from 5th – 8th February 2014.

We are currently engraving “The Africa Rifle” which is the pair to this .600 and which will be completed late 2014.


Two points!!

1) Good luck shooting a 600NE with a metal buttplate. You will have to factor in the cost of the shoulder surgery fillings and caps replacement and the reattachment of both retinas.

2) Since this sounds like it will be a "matched pair" when completed I suspect the price will hit
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$1,000,000 or more.

Sadly, Joyce and were to attend the SCI convention in Vegas and would have seen this porn in person but have canceled the trip for obvious reasons.

[Gingersnap]

Amazing! I don't think the new owner of the pair will be hauling them cross country and trying his or her luck on the local wildlife. Something like that is like owning the Hope Diamond - you don't just drop it on to impress the girls at the book club.

Ownership is a lot more like guardianship.

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Amazing! I don't think the new owner of the pair will be hauling them cross country and trying his or her luck on the local wildlife. Something like that is like owning the Hope Diamond - you don't just drop it on to impress the girls at the book club.

Ownership is a lot more like guardianship.

I guess I could snobbishly say this one is :: cough :: "new" while mine is 112 and Joyce's 108 years old. Now if I could just find a 100+ year old 600 NE in fine working order under $75,000 I'd be in hog heaven.

[Frostbit]

I guess I could snobbishly say this one is :: cough :: "new" while mine is 112 and Joyce's 108 years old. Now if I could just find a 100+ year old 600 NE in fine working order under $75,000 I'd be in hog heaven.

Thank God it was SOLD

Could be why they are so hard to find….

"According to Michael McIntosh in his excellent book, “The Big Bore Rifle”, there were very few .600 double rifles built during the pre-war era with “Jeffrey accounting for a total of 32, Holland and Holland 6, Purdey’s half dozen, Westley Richards 3, and John Wilkes a few”