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Beautiful gun! DRSS Sabatti 450\400 NE Merkel 140-2 500 NE | |||
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It is a lovely gun that I nearly purchased a few years ago now. I picked a WR Droplock instead being the rarer of the two. That gun shoots, I used to know the previous owner to the one I looked at it with. Previously 500N with many thousands of posts ! | |||
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Does it have Oval bore barrells? | |||
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Lovely fences, it appears to be a back action lock. | |||
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Any guesses what that gun would sell for? I would venture $30K to $38K... On the plains of hesitation lie the bleached bones of ten thousand, who on the dawn of victory lay down their weary heads resting, and there resting, died. If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch... Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son! - Rudyard Kipling Life grows grim without senseless indulgence. | |||
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Wow! That is sweet! "When the wind stops....start rowing. When the wind starts, get the sail up quick." | |||
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Husky: It was my understanding that the oval bores were for BPE rifles. However, I would like to know if Lancaster made oval bores for NE. I have never seen them but that doesn't mean they didn't use them. I thought oval bores were utilized more for the obturation of lead projectiles and ease in cleaning black powder fouling from rounded grooves. Dutch | |||
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I am waiting to ask a previous owner of this rifle who is away until Wednesday. From memory I thought this was rifled but wanted to check. The person I need to ask shoots a number of oval bores and seems to be able to get them to work fine. I doubt I would have looked at this rifle if it had been oval bores. Previously 500N with many thousands of posts ! | |||
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This one has regular Enfield rifling I believe. Lancaster did make oval bore nitro proved 303s. I almost got one once but it wouldn't shoot any load or bullet well enough to keep. | |||
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For what it's worth, COTW lists the 375/303 WR as being available in high velocity Westley double rifles with Lancaster oval bore rifling from 1905. This one was loaded with axite powder. I have no idea about the 400 bores. | |||
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FWIW, a friend has three Lancaster rifles from the Nitro era with oval boring. One is a bolt-action .404 on an opened-up M98 action, the second a .280 boxlock ejector double and the third a .280 on a M98 action. | |||
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Would be interested to know why or when they quit utilizing the oval bore in the NE's? Dutch | |||
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Lancaster states in their 1924 catalouge that they have dropped oval bore for nitro rifles.....vaguely stating that conventional rifling works better with high velocity.. | |||
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