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Just curious, Will it shoot loose quickly?

Looks like it has two locking tangs for Greener cross bolts. It is a high pressure cartridge but the gun is probably made of good modern steels. Looks like a nice gun.

That would make a fine North American rifle or for plains game. I doubt that it will shoot loose quickly.
Bill

It sounds pretty stout and it was made for that cartridge.

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quadruple-grip action with broad flat-top fences, removable striker discs, side-bolsters

How many .378 Wby rounds do you intend to shoot through that?


20 rounds/week X 52 weeks X 20 years = 20,800 rounds

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40 rounds/ year (familiarization and hunting) X 20 years = 800 rounds

While some fine 'looking' guns are made in Ferlach I would not place blind faith in them to be without problems.

I had to repair my German friend's custom made 6mm Remington single shot Ferlach rifle just before he headed out on a chamois hunt out here in NZ. He was at the range checking out his rifle and ammo and broke the gun open to find a case not extracting. The small extractor actuator screwed in a recess on one side of the flat had snapped out around the screw head. A very poor piece of gunsmithing with the head of the retaining screw too large and when recessed into the actuator left little metal for strength.

I made a new actuator and used a smaller headed retaining screw. All worked fine for his successful hunting trip and he beat a hasty path to his Ferlach gunmaker's door on his return to Europe to berate him for a poor piece of workmanship. Same rifle on another hunt out here and my friend broke the stock completely off the rifle when he had a small slip in the bush.

I had actually met the gunmaker when visiting his premises in Ferlach with my German friend a couple of years earlier.