I see a few of these rifles pop up every now and then but I can’t find much about the company. Were they just an importer of rifles built elsewhere or a full custom shop or?? A couple I’ve seen are marked “blindee” which leads me to think they (at least the barreled actions) were built elsewhere.

Thanks.

Must be wholesaler or importer.
Balle blindee ( means jacketed bullet) you will find on Belgian (FN) or French made rifles.

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Originally posted by heavenknows:
Must be wholesaler or importer.
Balle blindee ( means jacketed bullet) you will find on Belgian (FN) or French made rifles.

YEs, I've seen this on FN rifles, so makes we wonder if they simply imported the actions and finished them here? The actions I;ve seen all looked like an FN.

Kind of like the F.I.E. rifles

Peter Capstick had one in .375 H&H built back in the '80s I believe and wrote about it. It might be in one of his videos as well. There also might be a mention of it in either Last Horizons or Death in a Lonely Land in a chapter about the .375.

Many thanks. I’ll take a look.

Continental Arms was an elegant walk up second floor gun shop in Manhattan in the sixties and earlier. They specialized in Belgian imports, both rifles and shotguns. As I recall, it was walking distance from Abercrombie and Fitch. Their top grade Belgian shotguns were referred to as "Imperial Crown". Griffin and Howe may still have one or two for sale from a consigned collection.

Great info, thanks!

A little more...
Taken from Capstick's "Last Horizons"

My advice would be to invest in a good .375 H&H Magnum magazine rifle of a hair over ten pounds, put a good, solid, tip-off mount on it for a lower range variable scope, and forget it. I carried a .375 by Continental Arms of New York, a masterpiece of simplicity and reliability that kept me out of the obits on several occasions, and at that, I used it only to back up clients on dangerous game."
Good advice.
I wonder if anyone has any photos of one.