Interesting Firearm

[toolebox 1,630]

Its been many years since I owned a center fire rifle larger than my pair of .223s but I was in the market for a rifle I could shoot some red deer with .One evening I was surfing the net carefully checking all the for sale web pages in my part of the world (NZ) when I spotted a older 7x 57 rifle for sale. This rifle is what's termed here, as a "Bor buy back" from the Bor war in South Africa 1896, that makes this rifle 130 years old .To be fair there's not much of the original rifle left ,at some point in the 1960s it belonged to an hunting book author who re-barreled the firearm with a Douglas barrel ,replaced the trigger assembly with a adjustable timmley unit ,then to finish he imported a carved stock and sling from Europe.This rifle shoots 3/4 MOA.I'm really pleased I managed to find a 7x57 as they are getting harder to  find ,and this one is a beauty! I cant remember how to post a few pictures,anyone? help me with that?

Edited March 20 by toolebox

[teagcoilh 19]

That’s a cracking bit of history to own. A 7×57 with that kind of story and still shooting ¾ MOA is something special, especially given the age. They’re getting thin on the ground now, so you did well there.