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Nice rifle, well almost...the butt pad....The rest is nice, very nice. Old Greener style action. English style stocking, you have my email let me know when it's available.

I have two Hollis rifles.

The little one pictured in the previous post and a big one that I saved from a sentence of destruction in South Africa. Barrel wasn't registered so it was scheduled to be destroyed. I was able to rescue it by having the barrel threads cut off and the riflling drilled out. I intend to reline the bore and build a new barrel tenon and put the rifle back in action! It's a .450 Westley Richards No.2 Musket.

The little Martini is a .218 Mashburn Bee. The action body is engraved I.Hollis and sons. I believe it started out as some sort of rook rifle. Later probably after the 1940's somebody rebuilt it to a .218 Bee. I bought it from Jansa's a few years ago for a little over $400USD when the Australian dollar was about .52 to USD. Who ever rebuilt the rifle did an okay job. They just didn't restock it back in the English style of the original. They could have made a better forearm escutceon. The made a clever false nocks form, by milling a flat across the top of the barrel cylinder.

Both little Hollis and the big Hollis are Greener style Martini actions. All the parts are pinned to the action body .

The Francotte style Martini cadet is more common and has all the internal parts attached to the trigger group and drops out the bottom. Here is a picture of my Wife's .22K Hornet with the little Hollis and you can see the difference.

As you can see this is a working rifle!

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DD, Ret.

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