Bought the dream rifle, or bought the farm, today.

Ardent said:
I'd seen that, pretty ridiculous, it keeps getting shared as a Nascar engine, but it's actually meaner than a Nascar engine with 410 cubes instead of 358. Same HP, but more torque. My boy lets me drive his '67 fastback from time to time, and it's nowhere near that wild, but still very, very quick.
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roush/yates is the builder for nascar, I know the cubes are different. I see lots of posts saying the engine needs a rebuild after the video, it won't last, etc which is untrue of a quality build. I have a D1R procharger on a 408 in my 95 Cobra
 
Enough already... stop the hijacking of your thread.

Once you get it I'm really interested to know how the balance feels in comparison to say the merkel. They may balance in the same place and yet feel totally different and I expect that to be the case. Likely much thicker at the chambers.
 
I measured balance point from butt with the rifles I shot in the stopping rifles shoot, taking my time on that write up but it's coming, will be sure to measure for the H&H as well. It did prove interesting, moving the balance point of a rifle just 3/8" alters its feel and handling substantially.
 
hoytcanon said:
The question is... what sort of horrific butchery is required to get that 3/8"???
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It depends which way you need to move. The hacksaw goes either to the barrel end or the butt. Just make sure you use one of those jig thingies from Home Depot to ensure the cut is straight. :p
 
I get that you guys are joking but many think it's as simple as taking weight off one end or adding it to the other.

That is the beauty of these handcrafted pieces. It's more than the fit and finish, the slow old fashioned one off process is conducive to a more responsive feeling firearm. It has to be balanced as part of the design (density and volume of materials) from the ground up. The old brit rifles are really thick at the chambers compared to most of the euro pieces I've seen, Heym being the widest or closest comparison.

eta: the best comparison I can come up with is a 15th century forged sword with a propper 1/2" at the hilt and distal taper/ fullers as compared to a modern cnc reproduction milled from 1/4" stock.
 
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RRCo. said:
The best CNC mills have accuracy that hand filing can never equal, lamp black or no lamp black.
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If that were the case why did Ruger's attempt to build a high quality double thwarted? It went in the toilet because, as accurate as CNC mills are, they stack tolerance limits on tolerance limits until, eventually, the machine just doesn't work. Which is why the Old Man pre-war Sauer double will not close on a cigarette paper. Lamp black, my friends, lamp black.
 
Gorgeous rifle you have there. I enjoyed the car analogy and it speaks to me in terms of watches as well. Someone can go through life with a $20 timepiece on their wrist or they can spend thousands....even tens of thousands or more on a handcrafted piece that won't keep as good a time as the $20 mass produced watch. It is a matter of appreciation of the effort and engineering that goes into each piece.
 
Ardent said:
... Holland & Holland .375 Flanged Nitro Express Royal double with some curious features, single selective trigger, 26" barrels, H&H scope mounts, ejectors, the whole todo...
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I hope this will prove to be a stupid question, but this is a .375 Flanged Magnum Nitro Express? Because the original designation of .375 Flanged Nitro Express belonged to a little 2 1/2" cased straight walled cartridge firing a 270 gr. bullet at something less than 2000 fps. The vintage of it makes me think it could be either one.
 
BigUglyMan said:
If that were the case why did Ruger's attempt to build a high quality double thwarted? It went in the toilet because, as accurate as CNC mills are, they stack tolerance limits on tolerance limits until, eventually, the machine just doesn't work. Which is why the Old Man pre-war Sauer double will not close on a cigarette paper. Lamp black, my friends, lamp black.
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Add to that Sabbati's disasterous attempt of regululating barrels on a jig. Sometimes man will triumph over machine, and art over science.
 
MDR said:
Gorgeous rifle you have there. I enjoyed the car analogy and it speaks to me in terms of watches as well. Someone can go through life with a $20 timepiece on their wrist or they can spend thousands....even tens of thousands or more on a handcrafted piece that won't keep as good a time as the $20 mass produced watch. It is a matter of appreciation of the effort and engineering that goes into each piece.
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Well said.

Very nice rifle OP. I was thrilled to pick up my first medium bore rifle this weekend, unfortunately, I cannot quite afford this kind of beauty yet. Christmas still has come early for us both :)
 
9.3mauser said:
I hope this will prove to be a stupid question, but this is a .375 Flanged Magnum Nitro Express? Because the original designation of .375 Flanged Nitro Express belonged to a little 2 1/2" cased straight walled cartridge firing a 270 gr. bullet at something less than 2000 fps. The vintage of it makes me think it could be either one.
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Magnum, indeed, proper Flanged.
 
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