NitroX
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| 02/06/24 12:17 AM |
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Re: A Magnificent Single Shot Falling Block by WR
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That is a beautiful rifle for a gun room but not a gun to take out hunting. I like hunting with nicely engraved, vintage rifle but this WR seems somewhat "over the top".
I'm a bit of a dissenter. A great work of gun art indeed. Wonderful to hang on the gun room wall to show to and impress one's mega millionaire friends. I doubt it will see many hunting fields. High seats maybe, a reason for that scope. Maybe a genteel Scots stag hunt.
A great work of gun maker art like Westley Richards is so capable of doing.
As I get older I prefer plainer functional but still nice walnut. Not over trained. That's for a piano or a coffee table. Colour case gardening. Simple engraving or traditional. I do like those elaborate real like scenes.
7x65R is a useful modern medium cartridge. I'd go for a .300 H&H Flanged.
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An original Westley Richards falling block rifle has been used as the basis for this new-build European big game rifle in 7x65R. Re-purposing good examples of vintage actions to create new custom rifles was commonplace in the British gun trade until quite recently.
Good. If they can "re-purpose" old good faithful examples, I can re-"purpose" my historical Dutch East Indies military 1893 Steyr in 6.5x53R.