Where to look for a Parker Hale?

[angusb1]

I would like to buy a Parker Hale in .270 Winchester. Ideally I'd like to go to a shop or two so I can handle several and see which stock I like best. Does anyone know of a shop which would have several I could go and look at? I'm near Swindon but I don't mind driving an hour or two and I visit family in Essex so anywhere over that way would be fine as well.

Any suggestions?

Cheers

 

[Ronin]

Ring around most gun shops and you will likely find one in the back

 

[VSS]

I would like to buy a Parker Hale in .270 Winchester. Ideally I'd like to go to a shop or two so I can handle several and see which stock I like best. Does anyone know of a shop which would have several I could go and look at? I'm near Swindon but I don't mind driving an hour or two and I visit family in Essex so anywhere over that way would be fine as well.

Any suggestions?

Cheers

What an excellent choice of rifle and calibre!
I hope you find one.
You will enjoy it when you do.

(If you're really lucky, and find one that's not already been screwcut, so much the better!)

 

[8x57]

Just about every RFD in the country will have a couple of old Parker Hale rifles covered in dust and at the far end of their racks in their armoury.
Don't appear too eager when they blow the dust off as there are some real bargains to be had if you choose wisely. (There's also some right old tat.)

 

[enfieldspares]

I would like to buy a Parker Hale in .270 Winchester. Ideally I'd like to go to a shop or two so I can handle several and see which stock I like best. Does anyone know of a shop which would have several I could go and look at? I'm near Swindon but I don't mind driving an hour or two and I visit family in Essex so anywhere over that way would be fine as well.

Any suggestions?

Cheers

Up the M6 to Wigan. McAvoy's. Or there is an gun auction at Stroud Auctions three times a year.

 

[Stumpy2]

Norman Clark Gunsmiths Rugby, if I remember they bought the parts when Parker Hale closed down. Can probably build whatever you want

 

[sy247]

What an excellent choice of rifle and calibre!
I hope you find one.
You will enjoy it when you do.

(If you're really lucky, and find one that's not already been screwcut, so much the better!)

I'll second that!

 

[Klenchblaize]

If only we could print pictures from a memory I’d sent you one of a London gun shop window in 1973 that had a serried bank of Parker Hale rifles to make you weep. Must have been at least 30 of them with all their manufacturer labels, shop written Manilla price tags and chambering info dangling from the trigger guards.

Happy and simpler times.

K

 

[Selous]

Donaldsons guns in Milton Keynes and
Lamberts of Ringwood both have the 1200 deluxe on Guntrader. There will be other calibres as well. As others have said have a phone round as many places may not even advertise they have one.

 

[Essexsussex]

I tried this when I wanted an old school 270. Mostly they said “we sent them off to auction when we had a clear out”.

 

[KimE]

hmm .308w

Parker Hale 7,62x51 #S05010.

Studsare Engelsk Repeter. Fabrikat Parker Hale. Modrel. 98. Kaliber 308win. Tillv.nr. S05010. Piplängd 60cm. Ställbart sikte. Plundringsbart magasin. Monte Carlo kolv med kindstöd. Gummibakkappa. Kikarsikte 3-9x40 monterat.

auctionet.com

 

[Heym SR20]

I would like to buy a Parker Hale in .270 Winchester. Ideally I'd like to go to a shop or two so I can handle several and see which stock I like best. Does anyone know of a shop which would have several I could go and look at? I'm near Swindon but I don't mind driving an hour or two and I visit family in Essex so anywhere over that way would be fine as well.

Any suggestions?

Cheers

I would have a look up st Francis Lovell in Witney or just google Parker Hale 270 and plenty come up

 

[Edinburgh Rifles]

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...

www.thestalkingdirectory.co.uk

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

 

[angusb1]

Sounds like I should speak to Francis Lovell and I will be popping in to Donaldson's on my way to visit the family soon as they have another gun I am interested in anyway.

 

[Klenchblaize]

This could be mistaken for a 1970’s Parker Hale:

A 270 barrel could easily be fitted.

K

 

[Essexsussex]

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...

www.thestalkingdirectory.co.uk

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 very fine looking rifle!

 

[Bo Diddley]

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...

www.thestalkingdirectory.co.uk

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...

 

[angusb1]

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...

www.thestalkingdirectory.co.uk

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?

It's a very nice rifle but not what I am looking for.

 

[Foxyboy43]

A number of PH .270s on Guntrader - scattered about the countryside from £200 upwards. May be worth a look?

 

[Bo Diddley]

Sounds like Edd has just what you are looking for @angusb1