What an excellent choice of rifle and calibre!
Up the M6 to Wigan. McAvoy's. Or there is an gun auction at Stroud Auctions three times a year.
I would have a look up st Francis Lovell in Witney or just google Parker Hale 270 and plenty come up
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That’s a very fine looking rifle!We must have sent 10-15 to France relatively recently!!
We still get them in in various states of “modernisation”
Usually the pressure bedding point has been removed to “free float” despite it being a terminal act on accuracy
Chopped off fore-sight and threaded….
Pitted bores
Battered wood
Etc etc
Every now and then a clean one arrives.
As it happens I have one for sale that is my own.
A John Dickson Parker Hale built on a Military action
Complete with front snd rear sight (unthreaded)
Reblued metalwork, smaller items Nitre Blued
Stock refinished and new Pachmayer vented pad fitted.
Shoots extremely well with 130gr Hornady Interlocks over N160
I did a write up here:
rifle restoration project
I asked in another post about barrel bluing but thought I would start a thread on my latest project. I picked up a very tired and somewhat battered John Dickson variant of a Parker Hale 1200 in .270 for an absolute steal. The barrel is as far as I can see "as new". mint, crisp rifling and...
I will get some current pictures up
It has been in my cupboard for too long
Highly unlikely it will come out if I am being honest with myself
You won’t find a better example
Sounds like this has just dropped straight in your lap @angusb1 , get on it...We must have sent 10-15 to France relatively recently!!
We still get them in in various states of “modernisation”
Usually the pressure bedding point has been removed to “free float” despite it being a terminal act on accuracy
Chopped off fore-sight and threaded….
Pitted bores
Battered wood
Etc etc
Every now and then a clean one arrives.
As it happens I have one for sale that is my own.
A John Dickson Parker Hale built on a Military action
Complete with front snd rear sight (unthreaded)
Reblued metalwork, smaller items Nitre Blued
Stock refinished and new Pachmayer vented pad fitted.
Shoots extremely well with 130gr Hornady Interlocks over N160
I did a write up here:
rifle restoration project
I asked in another post about barrel bluing but thought I would start a thread on my latest project. I picked up a very tired and somewhat battered John Dickson variant of a Parker Hale 1200 in .270 for an absolute steal. The barrel is as far as I can see "as new". mint, crisp rifling and...
I will get some current pictures up
It has been in my cupboard for too long
Highly unlikely it will come out if I am being honest with myself
You won’t find a better example
That's a lovely job you've done there Ed. You should get that rifle out in the field and use it. Did you ever work out where the two little screws came from?We must have sent 10-15 to France relatively recently!!
We still get them in in various states of “modernisation”
Usually the pressure bedding point has been removed to “free float” despite it being a terminal act on accuracy
Chopped off fore-sight and threaded….
Pitted bores
Battered wood
Etc etc
Every now and then a clean one arrives.
As it happens I have one for sale that is my own.
A John Dickson Parker Hale built on a Military action
Complete with front snd rear sight (unthreaded)
Reblued metalwork, smaller items Nitre Blued
Stock refinished and new Pachmayer vented pad fitted.
Shoots extremely well with 130gr Hornady Interlocks over N160
I did a write up here:
rifle restoration project
I asked in another post about barrel bluing but thought I would start a thread on my latest project. I picked up a very tired and somewhat battered John Dickson variant of a Parker Hale 1200 in .270 for an absolute steal. The barrel is as far as I can see "as new". mint, crisp rifling and...
I will get some current pictures up
It has been in my cupboard for too long
Highly unlikely it will come out if I am being honest with myself
You won’t find a better example
