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A FINE .240 (WEATHERBY MAGNUM) HEEREN PATENT FALLING-BLOCK SPORTING RIFLE BY HARTMANN & WEISS, NO. 8347
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A FINE .240 (WEATHERBY MAGNUM) HEEREN PATENT FALLING-BLOCK SPORTING RIFLE BY HARTMANN & WEISS, NO. 8347

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A FINE .240 (WEATHERBY MAGNUM) HEEREN PATENT FALLING-BLOCK SPORTING RIFLE BY HARTMANN & WEISS, NO. 8347
The hinged patent falling-block action with set-trigger, best foliate-scroll engraving with virtually full hardening-colour, highly figured stock with pistolgrip, engraved and colour-hardened pistolgrip-cap, cheek-piece and recoil-pad, sling-swivels, the octagonal Bohler Rasant steel barrel with open-sights and ramp-mounted bead-foresight with folding moon-sight, the breech-ends mounted with a Hensoldt Wetzlar 'Diasta' 6x42 telescopic-sight in quickly-detachable mounts

Weight 7lb. 13½oz. (with telescope), 15 1/8in. pull, 25in. barrel, nitro proof
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Lot Essay

This rifle is of very fine quality and appears to have had little use

The makers have kindly confirmed that the rifle was completed in 1983

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