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Martini 577/450 Carbine Sporter $1000 A lightweight very handy sporter - 6lb 8.5oz. Meant to use the "Carbine" charge and so marked. Strong Henry rifling. Sound wood with a horn forend tip. Sling eyes on barrel and butt. Newer case colors on action and butt plate. Newer blacking to barrel, trigger group, safety and cocking indicator. There is a bur in the chamber which still needs to be smoothed out. It tends to scrape cases on extration. Shootable as is but that needs to be sorted. I. Hollis & Sons .500BPE 3" $2000 Jones underlever - locks up tight. Rebounding hammers. A great first BPE rifle or a double you wouldn't hesitate to take out in the woods. Overall, a sound rifle. The action has been buffed and blacked - kind of shiny. The wood has various nicks etc. and there is a little gapping around the locks. The bores have strong Henry rifling. Frosted throughout but very shootable. I have shot this rifle with no issues. |
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I will take the Hollis if still available. Matthew |
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It might be sold. Will keep you posted |
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Hollis is sold. |
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Love that Martini Huvius! Wish It was in Oz...I am after one of those! Bugger! 93x64mm |
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Moved the Martini to Gunbroker fyi $800 reserve but if anybody here wants it for that, I will take $800 |
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Glad that is 577/450. Do you know who did the restoration? Have you shot this gun or even chambered a round in it? |
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The colors and blacking were done by Mike Tulowitzki. I haven’t shot the gun myself but loaded some rounds for Mike to shoot at Ellis Brown’s shoot a couple years ago. I can look through the fired brass and post a picture of a fired case. |
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Here are some pictures of the fired brass. You can see the teardrop shaped dent from the burr in the chamber. |
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FMD a double for 2 grand that isn't a POS? Lucky whoever got that :P |
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Both of these guns are now sold. Thanks for bringing the thread up again Ash. |
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Ah thank you, temptation removed |
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No worries, Ben |