It may be difficult to understand why it was thought necessary to create such a powerful cartridge, one that would prove to be a challenge to not only fire, but to design and create a suitable rifle for. in 1899 and entered production in 1900 as a stopping caliber for use on the world’s most dangerous game, be it African or Asian elephant or rhino, buffalo or gaur, or tiger in the thick jungles of India. 600 Nitro Express cartridge was designed by W.J. 700 Nitro Express with an elephant theme. 600 Nitro Express featuring a rhinoceros theme, and the other a. Two of Phillippe Grifnée’s most famous engraved rifles were done for Holland & Holland, one in. Sadly he passed away unexpectedly in May 2012 leaving a legacy of some of the most outstanding firearms engraving work the world has ever seen. Phillippe Grifnée’s work proved to be so extraordinary that he was approached by Holland & Holland to do some work for them in 1988 and was persuaded to work exclusively for them from 1992-1997, after which time he worked free-lance from his own studio at Xhendelesse, in Wallonia, Leige, Belgium. After graduation Grifnée worked with August Francotte and became an instructor at a number of prestigious courses in various institutions before returning to the L’Ecole d’Armurerie de Liege as a teacher. Grifnée was a student of master engraver and teacher Rene Delcour of the L’Ecole d’Armurerie de Liege and graduated from there in 1970. The end result of this was that every aspect of a Holland & Holland rifle was evaluated and refined, not just the locks and the barrels, but the stock design, and the blending of all that technological knowledge into a work of the rifle-maker’s art.Īmong the world’s engraving artists Belgian Phillippe Grifnée stands out among the best of the best. Holland & Holland’s rifles were used by knowledgeable sportsmen and women and a great deal of field experience was accrued during these decades, experience that was invested into making each Holland & Holland rifle as close to perfection as was humanly possible.
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It was during this period of history that Holland & Holland would become most famous for their dangerous game double rifles, providing rifles to African professional hunters, and to Maharajas and Nizams in India.
375 Holland & Holland Magnum cartridge in 1912, and their own assisted opening mechanism for double guns and rifles in 1922, this being incorporated into their “Royal” guns and rifles. Holland & Holland would go on to invent and patent their hand detachable sidelock system in 1908, the. Fosbery patented his invention in 1885 and offered it to Holland & Holland who purchased the patent and named it the Holland & Holland “Paradox” gun, with production beginning in 1886. Two years after Holland & Holland’s successes in “The Field” trials Colonel George Fosbery VC invented and patented his “ball and shot gun” system which incorporated rifling into the choke of a shotgun barrel so that the barrel would produce a decent shot pattern but would also spin and stabilize a bullet. It was in 1883 that Holland & Holland established their name when they entered the trials organized by “The Field” magazine and won all of the rifle categories.
Holland & Holland were established back in 1835 by Harris Holland, who subsequently invited his nephew Henry Holland to join him as an apprentice in 1861, and in 1867 made him a partner, with the move to renaming the company Holland & Holland occurring in 1875. 375 Holland & Holland Magnum cartridge back in 1912: the cartridge on which almost all of the belted magnums were based.
One of the small number of great London gunmakers is Holland & Holland, arguably most famous for their double-rifles and magazine rifles, a company that cut its teeth in seeking to make technologically superior sporting arms and ammunition, and also the company that fathered the belted magnum cartridges by creating the. It is when we look at the works of the great British gunmakers that we discover that blending of art, engineering, and a heritage of adventure expressed at its best. When I think about what first got me interested in guns and shooting it was the blending of the adventure of hunting, a fascination with the technology and engineering both of the arms themselves and the ammunition, and an appreciation of firearms as works of art, which included the art of the design, and the engraver’s art sometimes used to bring out the best in a design, and make it all the more fascinating.
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