What's the perfect time of history? If you were to teleport yourself back, where would it be, Mark?

My friends and I have spent way too much time down the pub or around campfires or wherever

discussing this because you want it to be early enough where you miss like being in France in

1915 in the trenches, or too late that

you're running up the beaches of Normandy, which were amazingly noble things, but given

the choice of rather than not being those things, but you don't want to be born too early

that you miss, like, modern science that were starting to come in in the late 19th century.

So I think somewhere, if you were born like 1870, you probably hit it sweet for Africa,

because you're like just coming into that nitro period, you know, the Rising Light double

rifle, Mouser Bolt action rifles, and you were probably too old to be sent off to France in 1914.

So, yeah, that's the conclusion we've come to.

My friend, I think you have it perfectly on the money.

And this is a question, ironically, that has occupied many sleepless hours for me when there's not a lot else to think about. Why not

consider history? Folks, I have a really cool guest on the line today. This is Mark Newton

with Rigby Firearms in London. And I'm just honored to talk to you today, swap some stories

and opinions and talk about Rigby's finearms. Thanks for joining me on the show.

It's a pleasure to be here, Joseph. Thank you so much for having me on. Of course. Yeah,

this is a really cool opportunity. I've handled Rigby's every chance I get at every show I

attend and I've shot a few of them, old ones and whatnot over the

years, and just always loved the history and the design behind them, both bolt actions and

double rifles. So we're going to have to dig in and talk about all those things, but first,

just for our listeners who aren't super familiar with Rigby and with who you are, Mark, would you give us kind of that 30,000 foot view of yourself

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