Recent content by PCC600

What a beautiful rifle . H&H style mounts and a Rigby style peep sight to boot .

Beautiful rifle .

I hope you can find a good 425 WR . I think they are the best of the big medium calibres . I like them so much I’ve got 2 ! A very old original takedown with extended magazine 1912 vintage and a more modern scoped version with a flush magazine . Both best grade rifles . The older one has lived...

I can’t remember where the new stock came from . I keep a lot of timber for various uses - not just rifles . The fiddle back is nothing special - I can easily reproduce from my saw milling equipment . Over here in Australia we just call it quarter cut . Take any plank , turn it on its side and...

Most of the old dangerous game rifle didn’t have cross bolts .

Here is a photo of the original stock . The replacement stock was treated with alkanet tint and hand rubbed oil finish . But it is much lighter coloured than the original stock .

Yes I did consider sending it out for a “sympathetic” restoration but decided against it . Something the next owner can do if they wish . The stock is a replacement . The original (which I still have ) did not have cross bolts. Otherwise the new stock is identical . I shoot this rifle so I felt...

Time . And sadly I’m running out of it . What a bugger !

My pleasure . That old rifle just oozes adventure .

Yes mate she is a great old rifle . A good shooter too . Light weight , no rubber recoil pad means you certainly know you have pulled the trigger !

Following the Conference of Versailles in 1919 the Mauser company was forced to remove the words Waffenfabrik Mauser from their weapons and replace it with Mauser Werks . As such that is a way of quickly identifying when the action was made . However the entire rifle was completed around 1925...

Mate it sounds like this might do the trick . Waffenfabrik Mauser Oberndorf Type A 404J with a pre WW1 magnum action - all matching numbers . Light as a feather with a horn butt plate .

Yes I’m pretty partial to the Art Deco style too .

It is magnificent .

Holland and Holland in St James Street is only a 15 minute walk from Purdey . Also a nice place for a bit of shopping .