Using the front trigger alone, without first setting the rear, results in a fairly stiff pull of 5 pounds, 6 ounces. To use the triggers, simply press the rear trigger firmly until it clicks then touch the front trigger to fire. To assemble, hook the action tang in place, gently swivel the barreled action down until it seats in the stock, and screw the front action bolt home with a coin, torqueing it as firmly as possible.Ī unique sear arrangement is fitted to the action in lieu of a trigger assembly and interfaces with the double-set triggers that are inletted with the bottom metal. Rather, the rear action tang is curtailed and formed into a hook-type element, and it seats beneath a metal tang-shaped housing set into the rear of the action mortise. Unlike many takedown designs, the action and barrel do not separate. Holland & Holland’s modified Mausers function just like any other K98-based design, so rather than spending space on the basics, I’ll detail a few of the unique characteristics of this rifle.įirst, this rifle is a takedown and requires nothing to take it apart aside from a coin. The scope is secured in rings fixed to a one-piece platform that mates into the two-piece base by hooking in a deep slot in the front, then dropping into a rear slot where a cam lever rotates and secures the lot. One is screwed to the front left side of the action just aft of the front receiver ring the other is both dovetailed and screwed into the rear receiver ring.
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Interestingly, the side scope mount consists of three main elements plus rings.
A metal cap with a trapdoor is fitted to the grip, and generous sling loops are fixed to the toe of the stock and around the barrel a few inches in front of the fore-end tip.Ī lovely old fixed-power Swarovski scope is mounted in a robust quick-detach side mount.
The only non-original part I’ve found is the Pachmayr “Old English” rubber recoil pad. Well-figured walnut, petite lines, and fine checkering define the stock. The front sight is classic Holland & Holland and features a fine brass bead, a large folding ivory bead for low-light use, and a folding hood. An express-type rear sight offers a standing leaf marked “50/200” and three folding leafs marked from 300 to 500 yards. The rifle featured in this column was built with double-set triggers and a drop-box magazine that holds four cartridges. 48,000.00 Please call 71 or e-mail for more details Holland & Holland Deluxe Bolt Action Rifle. Paul Mauser’s turnbolt was being hailed as the greatest development in sporting and military rifle technology, and H&H chose to use K98s modified to accept and function with the long magnum cartridge. 500/465 Nitro Express Double Rifle with 24 ejector rifled barrels, concealed third fastener (treble grip) and a Quarter rib. This was 1912, still pre-World War I, when the United Kingdom and Germany were on amicable terms. 375 H&H Magnum was designed for bolt-action rifles. Unlike most of the dangerous-game cartridges of the era, Holland & Holland’s.
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