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Mr. Hollis still works.
11 December 2016, 05:59
bobcMr. Hollis still works.
Once I found the blood trail, this piggie was fairly easy to track. Will be sausage, ground pork, backstrap, and French bacon (pork belly on smoker). 300 grain wide nose cast at @ 1500 fps. Bob
12 December 2016, 01:28
Dutch44Picture not coming through, Bob.
12 December 2016, 02:46
bobcHmm, need to go back to instructions to get it to show, thanks for letting me know
12 December 2016, 17:14
HuviusMay not be able to see the picture, but I can sure smell the bacon!
13 December 2016, 01:49
Dutch44I can smell the cleaning solvent!
13 December 2016, 11:34
mouse93quote:
Originally posted by bobc:
Hmm, need to go back to instructions to get it to show, thanks for letting me know
Let me help
14 December 2016, 05:48
cal pappasNice shot!
How about some details of the rifle?
I have a Hollis and in the past owned two others. They take a back seat to no other UK maker in the vintage years.
Cal
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14 December 2016, 07:14
Dutch44Good shooting, Bobolink. Now let's see more photos and details of your rifle.
14 December 2016, 22:24
bobc
Here is Hollis 450-400, built 1908 I think. Beautiful refinish by Dustin Mounts, extremely accurate with Hornady DGX and RL-15 and versatile with 300 grain loads and 5744 for reduced (pig & deer) loads. I was fortunate to find an original Hollis catalog that you see in picture.
14 December 2016, 23:01
cal pappasNow that's a rifle! But, Playboy didn't get famous for posting one small pic of a beautiful girl. Don't tease us--a nice photo spread of a beautiful rifle gets us going.
Cal
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Cal Pappas, Willow, Alaska
www.CalPappas.comwww.CalPappas.blogspot.com1994 Zimbabwe
1997 Zimbabwe
1998 Zimbabwe
1999 Zimbabwe
1999 Namibia, Botswana, Zambia--vacation
2000 Australia
2002 South Africa
2003 South Africa
2003 Zimbabwe
2005 South Africa
2005 Zimbabwe
2006 Tanzania
2006 Zimbabwe--vacation
2007 Zimbabwe--vacation
2008 Zimbabwe
2012 Australia
2013 South Africa
2013 Zimbabwe
2013 Australia
2016 Zimbabwe
2017 Zimbabwe
2018 South Africa
2018 Zimbabwe--vacation
2019 South Africa
2019 Botswana
2019 Zimbabwe vacation
2021 South Africa
2021 South Africa (2nd hunt a month later)
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15 December 2016, 00:46
Dutch44Fortunate indeed. Beautiful double.
16 December 2016, 17:11
RustyNicely done Bob!
Rusty
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21 December 2016, 07:03
cal pappasLook to my thread on mid winter toys and see my Hollis .577. Hollis was an under-rated maker. Both of us have fine rifles and, hopefully someday, there will be a book on Hollis rifles as well as other makers whose work is equal to the better known (but not better) makers.
Let's see more pics!!
Cal
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Cal Pappas, Willow, Alaska
www.CalPappas.comwww.CalPappas.blogspot.com1994 Zimbabwe
1997 Zimbabwe
1998 Zimbabwe
1999 Zimbabwe
1999 Namibia, Botswana, Zambia--vacation
2000 Australia
2002 South Africa
2003 South Africa
2003 Zimbabwe
2005 South Africa
2005 Zimbabwe
2006 Tanzania
2006 Zimbabwe--vacation
2007 Zimbabwe--vacation
2008 Zimbabwe
2012 Australia
2013 South Africa
2013 Zimbabwe
2013 Australia
2016 Zimbabwe
2017 Zimbabwe
2018 South Africa
2018 Zimbabwe--vacation
2019 South Africa
2019 Botswana
2019 Zimbabwe vacation
2021 South Africa
2021 South Africa (2nd hunt a month later)
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21 December 2016, 17:31
RustyThe research I have seen shows that Hollis and other "Houses" were supplied in large part by Harry Leonard of Birmingham. The reason the Hollis' that Bob and I own look like W.J. Jeffery's of the same period is that they were all made by Leonard.
While Bob and I and others were doing research we found that the rifles were delivered as finished rifles to the "Boutique" Houses. The Leonard reference number stamped on the under rib near the barrel loop can be found stamped inside the action as well as on the wood for the forearm and stock.
A look at the Jeffery Day book quickly show an example of the number of rifles built by Leonard for Jeffery.
As we have all seen Leonard made some beautiful, durable rifle!
Rusty
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"I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends."
----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836
"I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841
"for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.”