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Post war PH rifles were built on surplus Mauser actions. When those ran low they bought from commercial makers, finally ending up using actions from Santa Barbara in Spain. - dan
That has to be one of the last surplus actions PH used. I've never come across one from the 60's before. - dan
Actually, no. They used milsurp up to '67, '68... Mixed with the last ones, they started buying SB, FN and Zastava (with thumb Cut out) actions and around '69- late '70 they had access to the "Solid Wall" commercial SB actions..
La Coruña and Zastava did not start manufacturing the "commercial" type (no thumb cut-out "H" ring) until FN stopped making them and sold the machinery, and that only happened end of the '60s.
Zastava, wasn't set up for commercial actions before earliest '71 if not '72 to reach production spped and La Coruña (SB) were just a bit faster....
From what I have been able to gather over the years is that all the Safari were made on ex-military receivers while the post -Safari (i.e. 1200, 100 etc, ) were made on commercial variants, the first ones with thumb cut out.
Here's a 1966 Safari with an ex-military (the markings below the action don't lie..) action and a FN Supreme style bolt shroud + the PH Trigger and the military bottom metal...
La Coruña and Zastava did not start manufacturing the "commercial" type (no thumb cut-out "H" ring) until FN stopped making them and sold the machinery, and that only happened end of the '60s.
Zastava, wasn't set up for commercial actions before earliest '71 if not '72 to reach production spped and La Coruña (SB) were just a bit faster....
From what I have been able to gather over the years is that all the Safari were made on ex-military receivers while the post -Safari (i.e. 1200, 100 etc, ) were made on commercial variants, the first ones with thumb cut out.
Here's a 1966 Safari with an ex-military (the markings below the action don't lie..) action and a FN Supreme style bolt shroud + the PH Trigger and the military bottom metal...
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