For those of you that dont get to visit our store we have alot of interesting trades going in and out of here. We recently bought 2 Churchill “One of One Thousand” rifles. Both have 3 leaf Express Sights, beautiful walnut stocks, case hardened grip caps and have Redfield scopes on them. From all I have been able to gather these we made for Interarms by Churchill for their 20th Anniversary in 1973. The 2 we have are serial numbers 31 and 32 and are engraved on the top of the barrel “Churchill (Gunmakers) Ltd 7 Bury Street, St James, London, England” The side of the barrels are engraved “Custom Made For Craig Fox Huber” I did a search on his name and there is, or was, a gun writter by that name. I have no idea if they have any connection, but these are beautiful rifles and there isnt alot of information about them out there. According to the Blue Book they only produced 100 total. If anyone has any more information about these guns please email me at mike@orchardshardware.com
We got some other trades in this week. A Browning BLR Stalker with the Boss, a Sig P239 and P229, both in 40 S&W. A perfect Ruger #1 in 338 Win Mag. Chuck’s (the owner) Remington 700 XCR in 375 H&H fresh back from Africa where him, his son Dan (Jr) and daughter Shannon made short work of everything they aimed at. A Remington 700 BDL in 25-06, Walther G22, and Springfield 1911 all came in this week too. Go check our website for all the new guns www.orchardshardware.com
I did get out and shoot some Dawgs a few weeks ago and put the High Wall Winchester in 223 and the Barnes Varmint Grenades through the test. Both worked well, but Im thinking the Grenades still need more speed. They seem to perform just slightly less at 223 velocities then the Nosler Ballistic Tips. I actually sold the High Wall after the trip and bought one of Remingtons 700 SPS Tactical’s. I get bored pretty easy and this is a very sad (and expensive) hobby to have when you do…haha I havent shot the SPS yet, but I have test loads ready and am just waiting for some good weather on my days off, which doesnt seem to be in the plans this Spring so far! Im hoping to go back up to Wyoming and get some pups next week so it better be nice Thursday! haha I’ll let you know what happens and how this new gun performs
-Mike