Thanks for all the good info!Beautiful rifle!
Lytellton is post-Musgrave.
The Musgrave factory in Bloemfontein closed in the very early 90’s.
Production then moved to Lyteltton Engineering Works in Pretoria.
Due to their military production, they kind of stopped building the hunting rifles.
In 2009, the Musgrave name and all the old, unused actions were bought by a gentleman called Frik du Plooy and production was moved to a town called Ermelo.
I have a “modern” Ermelo made 300H&H and it’s a wonderful rifle!
Your rifle is 10/1 built on a Santa Barbara or VZ 24 action.
Here in SA, the old Bloemfontein Musgrave rifles are considered as THE REAL Musgrave’s.
The same guys that believe that also forget that Winchester changed hands a few times before the pre-64 Model 70 was released.
Don’t bother working up a load for that rifle, unless you want your other 30-06’s to rust in the safe.
Here is the link to the Musgrave website. There’s a page regarding the history.
BTW: Musgrave is one of the very few, if not the only rifle manufacturer in the world that still chamber production rifles in 300H&H.
Locally, those rifles go for between $800.00 and $1200.00Never fear, help is always near. Should the horrible burden of owning such a rifle become to much for you to bear, I'm quite sure your friends here at AH could scrape together a few dollars and ease your pains.
I go through Ermelo fairly often. Is there a storefront or office there?Beautiful rifle!
Lytellton is post-Musgrave.
The Musgrave factory in Bloemfontein closed in the very early 90’s.
Production then moved to Lyteltton Engineering Works in Pretoria.
Due to their military production, they kind of stopped building the hunting rifles.
In 2009, the Musgrave name and all the old, unused actions were bought by a gentleman called Frik du Plooy and production was moved to a town called Ermelo.
I have a “modern” Ermelo made 300H&H and it’s a wonderful rifle!
Your rifle is 10/1 built on a Santa Barbara or VZ 24 action.
Here in SA, the old Bloemfontein Musgrave rifles are considered as THE REAL Musgrave’s.
The same guys that believe that also forget that Winchester changed hands a few times before the pre-64 Model 70 was released.
Don’t bother working up a load for that rifle, unless you want your other 30-06’s to rust in the safe.
Here is the link to the Musgrave website. There’s a page regarding the history.
BTW: Musgrave is one of the very few, if not the only rifle manufacturer in the world that still chamber production rifles in 300H&H.
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