Rook Rifles

[GeorgeGibbs505]

William Evans rifle, once was a 300 Rook, now a larger wildcat. Wonderful condition and shoots good.

 

[ZG47]

Great find and I'm glad you have that set.

I have the same problem of materials in wrong places. My office is my library and where I keep my guns , my workshop is in another building where I do smithing work, restoration projects, and handloading. As Murphy's law dictates, whatever I need is always in the other location at a given moment.

How about asking a much younger person to set you up with a second computer and a wifi booster OR a home network. Amazing what competent computer literate people can achieve, on a small budget, especially with lightly used trade-in or demo kit. A secondhand tablet could be the ideal workshop solution. Just saying …

 

[Altitude sickness]

GeorgeGibbs, the squirrel laying next to your Rook rifle gives proportion to the rifle. The squirrel looks like a ground hog next to the petite rifle.

 

[rookhawk]

How about asking a much younger person to set you up with a second computer and a wifi booster OR a home network. Amazing what competent computer literate people can achieve, on a small budget, especially with lightly used trade-in or demo kit. A secondhand tablet could be the ideal workshop solution. Just saying …

We're pretty high tech over here. We have a wifi mesh that covers dozens of acres, 8gb fiber, the workshop has appletv, HDTV, etc.

The thing it doesn't have is my library. What you'll find in life is that a great many books are required to get through life and the content in those books does not exist in AI, nor the Internet. Some of the books I reference often, only 250 copies exist and the Vatican has two of them...the Internet won't save me when I have a question about sporting art, but that 4 volume set from the early 20th century will.

 

[Certus]

Does this count? Technically marketed as a kangaroo rifle.
Chambered for the .450 No.1 “Kangaroo”. 1.5” case using a 270gr bullet and 28gr blackpowder.

 

[rookhawk]

Does this count? Technically marketed as a kangaroo rifle.
Chambered for the .450 No.1 “Kangaroo”. 1.5” case using a 270gr bullet and 28gr blackpowder.

I have no idea what any of that means, but I support it wholeheartedly.

I did have a 300 Sherwood which is a suped up 300 Rook. They advertised them originally for Kangaroo, small antelope, roe deer, etc. Plenty enough for the task given, just like your Wallaby weapon!

 

[Altitude sickness]

Drop the K and it’s a Roo rifle

I’m here all week

 

[idiot101]

Thought I'd jump in too. In 1898 my great great great grandfather bought this rook rifle from Holland and Holland, its what we all learnt to shoot with including his son who came back from the Boer war with a bunch of medals and immediately bought himself a pair of 12 bores (H&H royals). Unfortunately no double rifles as far as I know.

Unfortunately they (H&H) have lost the ledger book so I don't know what it was originally chambered in before it was rechambered in 22lr as so many were.

Growing up I remember it had a scope like a smarties tube which suited it much better but it had awful eyebox and field of view and when of my brothers swapped it out.

 

[Grumpy gumpy]

Thought I'd jump in too. In 1898 my great great great grandfather bought this rook rifle from Holland and Holland, its what we all learnt to shoot with including his son who came back from the Boer war with a bunch of medals and immediately bought himself a pair of 12 bores (H&H royals). Unfortunately no double rifles as far as I know.

Unfortunately they (H&H) have lost the ledger book so I don't know what it was originally chambered in before it was rechambered in 22lr as so many were.

Growing up I remember it had a scope like a smarties tube which suited it much better but it had awful eyebox and field of view and when of my brothers swapped it out.

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If it hasn’t been relined it was probably a 22long, a simple wipe with a LR reamer to cut the throat a bit deeper and it was good to go.
Gumpy

 

[Grumpy gumpy]

And as to Troy's 450 no.1 on a martini, I almost managed to buy a miniature snider in that calibre, I hesitated and tried not to appear too eager and the seller basically gave it to someone else, I was kicking myself over that
Gumpy