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

hawk-i said:
Wow, just Wow, check out the prices on these rifles...copy and pasted from the H&H site....this puts Ardents new purchase in a whole different light, I had no idea they were worth this kind of money!!!
Way to go Ardent!!!!

Double Rifles
Holland & Holland .300H&H 'Royal' Flanged Double Rifle 24 inches HNDR 051 £106500.00 View
Holland & Holland .375H&H 'Round Action' Double Rifle 24 inches HNDR 063 £65000.00 View
Holland & Holland .375H&H 'Round Action' Double Rifle 24 inches HNDR 045 £70000.00 View
Holland & Holland .375H&H 'Royal Deluxe' Flanged Double Rifle 24 inches HNDR 027 £120500.00 View
Holland & Holland .500/3'' 'Round Action' Double Rifle 24 inches HNDR 064 £65000.00 View
Holland & Holland .500/465 'Royal Deluxe' Double Rifle 24 inches HNDR 050 £139100.00 View
Holland & Holland .577 'Royal Deluxe' Double Rifle 25 inches HNDR 061 £170000.00 View
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Paid much less for mine, but still much, much more than I'll ever spend on another gun- except perhaps a .577.
 
gunrunner100 said:
Good show! I do have to ask...new or gently used? And where from?
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Are you high? Do you have any idea what that rifle would cost new? Even Angus couldn't rationalize that number!

Rifle is beautiful Angus. My rifle ethos is starting to swing that way too...a few really nice ones rather than lots of mediocre ones.
 
Dogleg said:
She was probably just going along with it the whole time; confident that you would never find a single trigger.

Speaking of single triggers, I could never understand why a single trigger on comparatively cheap shotguns could digest 10s of thousands of shells and yet we were told to believe that the same set-up on a rifle costing from three to thirty times as much was going fail the first time out. I'm interested to see how you make out. Is this trigger mechanical or inertia?
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Fully agree, and not sure, the locks are detachable of course so I'll certainty be enjoying a glimpse inside. Will be easy to tell whether it clicks the second time on a snap cap, fingers crossed. I suspect mechanical from the little bit I've gleaned on H&H single trigger rifles. It appears post 1897 all Royal single triggers were mechanical, but I've yet to have that solidly confirmed, on Hollands' site it just lists the change in 1897 as "A new single trigger mechanism is patented and used on all Royal guns." I'm sure the patent can be looked up but just going to wait for the rifle.
 
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Stunning.

Congratulations!

Enjoy it (we all know you will).

Hard work and work ethic pays off, there's no better feeling that enjoying a treasure like that knowing you deserve it.
 
Hot Damn!!!! That is Sweet!! I completely agree, she's a great investment and a safe one too....she won't tank here in the next year or 2 when the next correction hits....

Well done Angus, work hard and enjoy the spoils...very sorry to hear about your Rhino fiasco....not cool at all

And your right, we must get shooting sometime...would love to meet the new "Royal"

Really interested though., did you find it in Canada? US or Europe?
 
Congrats Ardent, on finding what you were looking for, and a sincere thanks for sharing it with an audience which appreciates it.

It's an incredibly beautiful gun, and I watched that sweet, compelling video from start to finish.

Without folks around who are interested in, and able to operate in "that league", the league simply would not exist. What a huge loss that would be to the world of firearms.
 
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