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For many years in the safe Bought it , put it in the safe, sometimes on a wintry night, I took beauty out of the safe and sited her on a stand close to the open fire place, mesmerized by her splendor combined with the reflection and smell of burning wood, I was wondering about her real role. In my heart I new that Darwin Hensley did not craft her to be a safe queen. Past week I took beauty to the range; she impressed and rewarded me with sub-moa groups, making up my mind. I know she will hunt this year. Darwin Hensley – Exhibition French Walnut - Winchester Pre 64 .338 Win Mag    Just sharing, Roland | ||
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Well that's not a bad looking rifle, and while I'm pretty sure it was meant to hunt with I can understand the desire just to look at it. How does that butt plate feel when shooting on the bench? Browningguy Houston, TX We Band of 45-70ers | |||
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Hey Roland1, Keep it out of the safe! Whatever you hunt with that cannon will be so impressed with its beauty, you won't have to shoot...the beast will die from visual delight!!! Good Shooting, Smoker | |||
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Beautiful rifle!  --->Happiness is nothing but health and a poor memory<---Albert Schweitzer --->All I ever wanted was to be somebody; I guess I should have been more specific<---Lily Tomlin | |||
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Speechless ! Is Mr hensly still in buisness? and how can he be reached? great cartridge and My favorie action to build on. I have a 1953 featherweight I am thinking of having done into probably a .257 Roberts ack imp. Probably out of my price range but at least worth asking ...tj3006 freedom1st | |||
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That's a beauty! Shoot and enjoy it! My guns are tools, beautiful precision tools. I don't baby them - I don't abuse them by any means, but they get used and enjoyed or I don't keep them around long most of the time. Mine all soon show their silver-worn appearance and have little dings here and there, but they live a life outdoors and go places with me daily. Living in the country I rarely walk outside without grabbing a favorite rifle in the event I run into a coyote, predator, marauding mongrel dogs, etc. A shot at one of these now and then keeps you on your toes and keeps your edge. This is Mtn Lion country also and I've had to deal with one in the past that was an aggressor, so I've learned that lesson to not be out of reach of something that goes Boom. .22 LR Ruger M77/22 30-06 Ruger M77/MkII .375 H&H Ruger RSM | |||
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Roland, admit it, it's the steel butt-plate that keeps you from shooting her. Actually, a very nicely done rifle. It looks like the metal work is mostly original. Is that the case? Darwin did a great job on that one. I hope it sees some good use this year. ______________________________ "Truth is the daughter of time." Francis Bacon | |||
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Roland, That's a spectacular rifle. Your house seems very fine as well. Show us more guns. Forrest has some really nice guns too.  Join the NRA | |||
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Beautiful rifle, unusual wood grain, flat-sawn?. NRA Life Member, Band of Bubbas Charter Member, PGCA, DRSS. Shoot & hunt with vintage classics. | |||
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It's beautiful but with a steel butt is designed to hang on a wall, not be shot... I'd get that changed!  | |||
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More,  Dale Goens - .338 Win Mag - FN action   Carl Gunther - .375 H&H - Winchester Pre 64 - 1953 Super Grade - The most accurate rifle I own .29 Moa 3 shot group - Consistently .45 Moa   Gary Goudy -Exhibition Turkish Circassian Walnut - .375 H&H - Winchester Pre 64 - 1953 Super Grade   John Bolliger - .375 H&H - Winchester - 2000   Just sharing, Roland | |||
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I like those stocks with the black streaks in them. Others like fiddleback are great too. Thanks for the pictures. As to the steel buttplates they do look nice and can be shot. All military rifles have steel plates for instance. At the range one can slip a pad on. When I started out all guns had steel or metal plates. Those vaunted pre 64 M70's had steel plates and the Featherweights had aluminum ones. Later some had plastic. Here is the best streaked stock that I have. I know it's only a factory gun but in person this rifle looks good.  Join the NRA | |||
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Yeah, and it makes for flinching, bad shooting and lost game... the first part of your first sentence is the only reason to exist... "they look nice." It's a way to show off skill on an "art rifle." Steel butt plates lead to all sorts of other ill's like chipped/blown wood when dropped (as happens to real hunting rifles). No, I grew up shooting an 1897 12 ga with a steel plate... it's only for nostalgic masochist's, the utterly ignorant or both... | |||
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I would take wonderful gun to Africa, Alaska, and stick her in a saddle scabbard and hunt elk and mule deer.. If I owned Angelina Jolie, you can bet I wouldn't keep her in my closet, well I wouldn't have at one time!  Ray Atkinson Atkinson Hunting Adventures 10 Ward Lane, Filer, Idaho, 83328 208-731-4120 rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com | |||
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I will make a case for steel butt plates. I usually hunt cool to cold weather. Usually very cold before dawn, but warms up during the day. So I wear lots of layers so I can add or peel them off over the day. I like the quickness of steel with layer clothing, any rubber buttpad is slower, I haven't got a leather covered to compare to so untl I hunt one I have nothing to say. My steel pads are old military, or custom rifles in lighter calibers. My 7x57 doesn't really kick, and I would certainly do the same on a 6mm or 257 Roberts or a 250 Savage. One last thing I really like on steel pads is a style thing. Some steel pads are a straight plate screwed to the Butt. THe type I like has a tang and rounds off the top edge of the Butt. Nothing to catch and always fast to the shoulder. One last thing I "HATE" shotgun pads on rifles, There were a lot factory rifles that shotgun pads were standard. The Model 70 was one. If I am going to put on a pad its going to be a solid. | |||
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Roland, Your Bolliger has to be the best .375 HH I have ever seen from any maker, bar none. Congratulations on owning some of the finest custom rifles that money can buy! | |||
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My vote also goes to the Bollinger. NRA Life Member, Band of Bubbas Charter Member, PGCA, DRSS. Shoot & hunt with vintage classics. | |||
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Man, that's the stuff dreams are made of! You've got a fine collection there! | |||
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That is wood porn... 577NitroExpress Double Rifle Shooters Society Francotte .470 Nitro Express  If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming... | |||
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Amazingly, I have never heard that pre-64 M70's cause flinching, bad shooting and lost game!  I have hunted the last 20 years with a 270 that has "eek" a steel buttplate. I don't shoot it with a t-shirt on, but I don't hunt in t-shirts. I am also neither a nostalgic masochist nor totally ignorant. You, sir, are entitled to your opinion as are we all. I personally would not want a steel buttplate on a 338, but I would not criticize someone else's choice to do so. Nor would I insult them."There are only three kinds of people; those who can count, and those who can't." | |||
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I wasn't critisizing his choice, I was speaking to Savage 99... learn to read things in context. | |||
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Woow ... talk about gun porn! Seems to give a lot of folks a "woodie."  (sorry, I just couldn't pass on that one.)Just magnificent! I love the .375s. Congratulations on good taste and the wealth to exercise it. Mike -------------- DRSS, Womper's Club, NRA Life Member/Charter Member NRA Golden Eagles ... Knifemaker, http://www.mstarling.com | |||
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I like that for sure !! | |||
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gun porn...i'm blushing  577 BME 3"500 KILL ALL 358 GREMLIN 404-375 *we band of 45-70ers* (Founder) Single Shot Shooters Society S.S.S.S. (Founder) | |||
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Damn straight,ride her hard,put her away wet... And hunt that rifle. | |||
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Hey Jeff, there aren't many who would live through the experience or be able to put her away at all. Geez I nearly had heart failure just looking at these beauties. Frank | |||
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ForrestB, The action and bolt was completely reworked. Forrest, you ought to know in Texas we don’t care about steel butt-plates. Thank you and good hunting. Roland | |||
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Gun porn for the gun sluts here..... ______________________ Guns are like parachutes. If you need one and don't have one, you'll likely never need one again Author Unknown, But obviously brilliant. If you are in trouble anywhere in the world, an airplane can fly over and drop flowers, but a helicopter can land and save your life. - Igor Sikorski, 1947 | |||
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Roland, The Bollinger is a wonderful rifle. Go shoot something with it. | |||
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Admittedly they are beautiful rifles, but a wall hanging rifle is defeating it's purpose, no matter how pretty. It took me many years to come around to this, but no one will appreciate them as much as I do so why not enjoy the weapon and get it into the field more. Besides it'll look even beter in outdoor daylight than it does in your gun room. Just one mans opinion. Best wishes. Cal - Montreal Cal Sibley | |||
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John Bolliger 375 H&H is exactly the rifle I have designed hundreds of times in my head. gary Goudy 375 is also stunning. Very nice collection there Roland. Thanks for sharing Harris The price of knowledge is great but the price of ignorance is even greater. | |||
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Superb collection, Roland. Fantastic taste. Good hunting! Mehul Kamdar "I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."-- Patrick Henry | |||
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WOW, and I am just rolling in lust from merely viewing these superb rifles!!!!!!!!! Use Them!! LLS  | |||
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Harris, Gary Goudy did the stock work. Action, bolt and barrel done by Herman Waldron. Good Hunting, Roland | |||
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