The .350 Rigby and .350 Rigby No 2 are proprietary medium bore rifle cartridges developed by

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Design

The .350 Rigby and .350 Rigby No 2 are both bottlenecked

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rifle cartridges, originally both cartridges fired a bullet of weighing .

.350 Rigby

The .350 Rigby, also known as the .350 Rigby Magnum and the .350 Rigby Nitro Express, is a

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cartridge intended for use in

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magnum length

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magazine sporting rifles, it fires its bullet at a muzzle velocity of .

.350 Rigby No 2

The .350 Rigby No 2 is the rimmed version of the .350 Rigby, intended for use in single shot and

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s, it shares the same cartridge case as the Rigby's earlier .400/350 Nitro Express, but fires the lighter 225 grain bullet of the .350 Rigby at a muzzle velocity of .

History

John Rigby & Co introduced both cartridges in 1908, intended for use as an all-round African hunting rounds, they were somewhat overshadowed by the arrival of the .375 Holland & Holland in 1912, although some sportsmen preferred these cartridges to the latter as the Rigby cartridges had less recoil.

Use

The .350 Rigby and .350 Rigby No 2 have been used successfully as general purpose African hunting cartridges on most African game species. Famous users included

Denys Finch Hatton Denys George Finch-Hatton MC (24 April 1887 – 14 May 1931) was a British aristocratic big-game hunter and the lover of Baroness Karen von Blixen (also known by her pen name, Isak Dinesen), a Danish noblewoman who wrote about him in her aut ...

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and John "Pondoro" Taylor. In his ''African Rifles and Cartridges'' Taylor wrote of the .350 Rigby "There is nothing spectacular about this cartridge; it has never had the write-up that the .318 Westley Richards and .375 Holland & Holland Magnum get from time to time; nevertheless, it is splendidly effective at ranges of up to at least and kills as instantaneously as the .375 Holland & Holland Magnum. In addition, it has an appreciably lighter recoil."

References

External links

Ammo-One, ".350 Rigby Magnum", ''ammo-one.com''
retrieved 8 November 2017.
Peter Carr, ".350 Magnum Rigby", ''sahunters.co.za''
retrieved 6 August 2014.
Cartridgecollector, ".350 Rigby Magnum", ''cartridgecollector.net''
retrieved 8 November 2017.

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