I bought this rifle from a guy in his 70's. He has had it for about 6 years & never shot it. He got it from a family estate - the original owner came from a Tea Plantation in Ceylon & South India (I started my career in Tea Plantations in Assam & South India!).

The rifle would have been used as a personal sporting gun. They did not hunt meat for the workers in the plantations. The British planter usually had one shotgun & one rifle. The rifle would have been used for wild boar, sambar, chital etc. or the odd leopard. Although every planter had a gun & / or rifle, not all of them were keen sportsmen. Most were just social hunters & the guns did not see too much use. This rifle has very good metal & bore. The bolt spring is like new as the rifle was stored with the bolt in the action & in taken down mode.

The wood is a native - probably teak or some other good hard wood. The inletting around the action is rough but the steel butt plate with trap door & cleaning rod has been done well & the barrel channel has also been done well to line up the barrel band front eye with the cross pin. It handles like my other sporter rifle.

I hope to have it restocked & rust blued one day. I might take it to Africa one day as my second rifle along with my Simson 9.3X62.

Gei's H&H MS is an awesome rifle & in very tidy condition. H&H's Manhattan gun rooms have one.