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Thanks for posting my photo and thanks also for this ripper of a thread.
These photos certainly stir the double rifle blood in my veins!
Regarding the Grand European.......
I re-regulated this rifle quite a few years back to shoot the Woodleigh 160 gn protected point bullets.
It is a great shooter and has a good reliable action.
Apart from re-regulation and bedding the stock head, the rifle is still set up as originally built, with ejectors, single inertia trigger, and auto safety.
It came from the (Japan) factory fitted with EAW QD pivot scope mount which (on this rifle) usually holds a 1-4 Leupold.
I have taken many good boars and quality billy goats with this gun, as well as crows, foxes and feral cats.