"that is because the british view any bolt rifle as a military rifle ....has anyone here ever walked into a high end gunshop in england like purdeys,hollands, evans,asprey,go in and tell them your interested in bolt guns and right away you can tell your basically second class citizen they only make them for the american market ,also i think landrover sells more cars here then anywhere at 70k a pop , they probably think were nuts for that too!!!!...paul"

Well, either you've never been to Bruton Street or you're repeating the sort of secondhand nonsense that gets tossed around on the internet now and again. I have never met anyone who has not been treated with the greatest of courtesy by any and all of Holland's staff.

No matter how dressed, who with, or how old or young. Even if spending not one penny. Two weeks ago I had the benefit of advice on four separate calls from Holland's regarding a .24) rifle being offered at auction. And two years ago the greatest of help sending back two guns from Paris to the United Kingdom. The charge? Just Ł60.

Either in person or on the telephone nothing is too much trouble. As for "an attitude" to bolt action rifles? Pardon? Never heard of .240 Apex, .244 Holland, .275 Holland, .300 Holland, .375 Holland? ALL BOLT ACTION rifle calibres! Not to mention the new .400 and .465. In fact Holland's were probably the best of the Mauser "converters" and certainly a "cut above" Rigby and two or three above Westley Richards.