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At the risk of boring you all f*rtless with my Whitworth tales, I'm taking a chance that some of you here might be interested to see -
a. the first shot of serial #420 in my possession, and a quick look-around of an early production Whitworth military match rifle made by Parker-Hale in their heyday. No doubt Mr Minshall of the MLAGB can put a date to this piece? He already has the 4XX serial number in his records, although, oddly he had it down as a Henry-rifled Volunteer.
b. I also made a short video immediately prior to shooting it -
Now I'm at home, and just starting the clean-up, I'll wait until later to take some stills for you, so you can see, and maybe compare, the differences between a real Parker-Hale-made rifle, and those that came later to the party. Obviously, starting loads were low, in order to get used to the extremely fine trigger - around three pounds and very clean - and general feel of the piece. Accuracy with the 535gr round-nosed bullet [Lyman? I really don't remember [see the pics]] was unamazing, but not too shabby for a first time out. All shots were low and left, which tells me that I can happily raise the load by a considerable amount to get them up and over. The bullet holes, shooting round bullets from a hexagonal bore, were cheeringly showing signs of six-sidedness, even with this *****-cat load.
More to come, soon.
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looks fantastic!
