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DR Will Find a New Home After 60 Years

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08 August 2017, 05:56
luv2safari
DR Will Find a New Home After 60 Years
Mine, it appears. dancing dancing

8X57J (yes, rimless)





08 August 2017, 08:05
jimmy j
Nice score! Any history to go with? Where did you happen to find this beauty?
08 August 2017, 08:53
bwanamrm
Nice clamshell with cool engraving! Driven boar hunter's dream!


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.
08 August 2017, 09:34
cal pappas
While I love pre war doubles from the UK, I have also admired the clamshell actions. They are just too cool.
What info have you gathered on this beauty?
Cal


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1998 Zimbabwe
1999 Zimbabwe
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2002 South Africa
2003 South Africa
2003 Zimbabwe
2005 South Africa
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2006 Tanzania
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2007 Zimbabwe--vacation
2008 Zimbabwe
2012 Australia
2013 South Africa
2013 Zimbabwe
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2016 Zimbabwe
2017 Zimbabwe
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2019 Botswana
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08 August 2017, 12:11
nitro450exp
Lovely gun, well done.

Nitro


"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
08 August 2017, 20:06
bwanajay
sweet
09 August 2017, 01:33
luv2safari
Some visual history:

I understand it hasn't been used for 50-60 years. That will all change this fall.


09 August 2017, 05:01
Hogbreath
Nice looking addition! Congratulations.


Guns and hunting
10 August 2017, 02:54
luv2safari


10 August 2017, 04:23
Nakihunter
Congratulations on a beautiful new acquisition.

I guess is belonged to so king, baron etc.

How much does it weight?


"When the wind stops....start rowing. When the wind starts, get the sail up quick."
10 August 2017, 06:50
luv2safari
It'll belong to a dirt-poor commoner who will get it back into the field soon and from now on, then by my Nimrod-grandson, Owen, "Nimrod" being a very positive term.

Weight is about 8 pounds, sans scope.
25 August 2017, 02:47
BaxterB
Dammit man - good show!

I've never seen a cross bolt "enhanced" like that. Way cool.
27 August 2017, 06:37
Slider
Nice!!!
27 August 2017, 10:19
luv2safari
I thought it was a good finishing touch. Wink
28 August 2017, 08:42
sambarman338
Nice rifle! If it is not a rude question: what is the scope?
28 August 2017, 12:09
luv2safari
Not rude at all. Wink

Now, asking who is porking my wife might step over a line...a bit...a little bit...some...

What was the question?
28 August 2017, 12:11
luv2safari
OH!

It's a Voightlander SKOPAR 3X.
31 August 2017, 09:28
MopaneMike
quote:
Originally posted by luv2safari:
Not rude at all. Wink

Now, asking who is porking my wife might step over a line...a bit...a little bit...some...

What was the question?


Naw!.. Thats not rude... Now asking who's NOT porking your wife... Now thats rude! rotflmo


MopaneMike