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Further to my last posting about an old 375 H&H Flanged Double that belonged to my grandfather. Here is Part II. Having finally imported the rifle it lay in my gun safe for many years. A few years ago we decided to have it completed restored and sent it off to JJ at Champlin. The rifle has finally returned and JJ has done a super job with the complete restoration. I will let the photos speak for themselves. It has not been hunted since it returned in January but Africa now lies in its future and perhaps a Lion!! Before the restoration  After the restoration  We decided to scope it and used claw mounts  Ready to go!   The pair of 375 H&H cartridges - Flanged Magnum on the left and the more popular Rimless cartridge on the right.  One last photo from the old days. My father's bag from one day! The bison (gaur) and sloth bear were taken with the 375 H&H double, the panther and spotted deer with his 9x57 mauser, pictured on the left.  Arjun Reddy HuntersNetworks Agency | ||
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That is very cool, thanks. Paul Smith SCI Life Member NRA Life Member DSC Member Life Member of the "I Can't Wait to Get Back to Africa" Club DRSS I had the privilege to fire E. Hemingway's WR .577NE, E. Keith's WR .470NE, & F. Jamieson's WJJ .500 Jeffery I strongly recommend avoidance of "The Zambezi Safari & Travel Co., Ltd." and "Pisces Sportfishing-Cabo San Lucas" "A failed policy of national defense is its own punishment" Otto von Bismarck | |||
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Thanks for posting this! That is impressive and an incredible piece of family history. The best part to me is that you're still adding to that history today. What will your grandchildren think when they see your hunting photos? Well done!  DRSS "If we're not supposed to eat animals, why are they made out of meat?" "PS. To add a bit of Pappasonian philosophy: this single barrel stuff is just a passing fad. Bolt actions and single shots will fade away as did disco, the hula hoop, and bell-bottomed pants. Doubles will rule the world!" | |||
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Very nice. JJ does do excellent work. A scope, in claw mounts, on a vintage double... EXCELLENT.  DOUBLE RIFLE SHOOTERS SOCIETY | |||
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Nice gun, photos and story. Thank you.  I wonder why Hornady choose to offer the 9.3R and not the 375R? Maybe both some day? | |||
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Great stuff and nice photos of years gone by! Thanks for sharing. "When the wind stops....start rowing. When the wind starts, get the sail up quick." | |||
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Fantastic rifle and a great family story...  | |||
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Beautiful restoration! That JJ does outstanding work! Rusty We Band of Brothers! DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member "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.” | |||
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Hello, Was the original wood cleaned, repaired and recut (Checkering) ? Looks great Regards "Man is a predator or at least those of us that kill and eat our own meat are. The rest are scavengers, eating what others kill for them." Hugh Randall DRSS, BASA 470 Krieghoff, 45-70 inserts, 12 ga paradox, 20 ga DR Simson/Schimmel, 12 ga DR O/U Famars, 12 ga DR SXS Greener | |||
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Woderful stuff!!! Thanks so much for sharing. DRSS | |||
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Outstanding! | |||
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I had to look at that old picture yet again......did anybody notice the size of that bear's head?!!! What a beast!!! DRSS | |||
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That is a great rifle and it's great to see it brought back to condition by a master of the trade. fourbore, Keep asking them in calls or email they need to fell like thyere is a market. That is why they brought out the outher NE calibers. Bill Member DSC,DRSS,NRA,TSRA A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -Mark Twain There ought to be one day - just one – when there is open season on Congressmen. ~Will Rogers~ | |||
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Wow Arjun ! Thats a sexy rifle, congrats ! AD | |||
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[QUOTE]A few years ago we decided to have it completed restored and sent it off to JJ at Champlin. The rifle has finally returned and JJ has done a super job with the complete restoration.[QUOTE] ...very nice...nothing like a historical link to the family past through a treasured sporting arm...note what appears to be the excellent mounting of the claw bases...may i inquire about jj's price for this embellishment?... | |||
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well done arjun ------------------------------- Will / Once you've been amongst them, there is no such thing as too much gun. --------------------------------------- and, God Bless John Wayne. NRA Benefactor, GOA, NAGR _________________________ "Elephant and Elephant Guns" $99 shipped. “Hunting Africa's Dangerous Game" $20 shipped. red.dirt.elephant@gmail.com _________________________ If anything be of note, let it be he was once an elephant hunter, hoping to wind up where elephant hunters go. | |||
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