Y’all ever see a Win 1905?
it’s a Model 63, only with a stack magazine chambered for centerfire cartridges- 35 Auto and 32 Auto.
I’d heard of them, but I never saw one. I never thought I’d see one in PERSON.
Now the Cabelas by my house has THREE. One of them is under $300.
Jesus. THis is a bitch.
They also have two little Holland and Holland rook rifles out in the rack area, where you can PICK THEM UP and TOUCH THEM.
Holland and Holland.
Good lord.
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How much for the H&H’s? (I know, if you have to ask, you can’t afford…
…and what are the chamberings of the rook rifles?
One is chambered in 295 or some wierdass thing, and the other in 250 something. Both centerfire, both smoothbore or part smoothbore, and either one is about a grand.
Sometimes, those old English rifles can be rechambered for something more common if the bore is the right caliber. .310 Greener to .32-20 comes to mind. The smooth bore, though, kinda decreases the practicality of doing something like this.
Anyway, I found some pictures of the 1905 and it sorta reminds me of the Remington Model 8 or 81. I owned an 81 in .35 Rem for a short while. It’s one of the firearms I wished I still had.
.32S&W long will sometimes work in the .310 as well. I have some loaded with HBWC that shoot pretty well.
For a grand I’m glad I’m too far away to drive over for the weekend…
Dude, you have a Cabela’s in your back yard? How do you find time to post. Get the gun you want cause we all die soon. (and no, I am not channeling revealtions)
You know, technically… I should be the gun nut.
My Dad had a Model 1901, semi auto (blowback) in .401 Winchester Self-Loading Rifle caliber. I think that they were redesignated as the 1905. The 401 WSLR was a huge, rimless, straight-case cartridge about twice as long as a 10mm. I have watched Dad shoot a deer dead, with the soft-nose Kynoch bullet penetrating all the way through an 8″ tree before killing the deer in it’s tracks.
When I inherited the rifle, I sold it to pay taxes. It only brought $300, but I got another $100 for two boxes of the Kynoch ammo.
There were far more of thse rifles made in .351 WSLR. They were sold to police and prisons for enforcement duty.
A smallish carbine, the rifle nonetheless weighed too much at 9#, over 2# of which was the giant bolt and bolt op rod. In a straight, non-delayed blowback action a massive bolt is needed for a heavy caliber.
This rifle was probably the first “self-loader” (semi-auto) sold in the USA.
A piece of history, indeed.