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oneatatime Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3849 Location: Rocky Mountains Joined: Oct 30^th, 2011	Ever heard of these? Aug 4^th, 2018 at 8:34pm	Print Post
	I was trying to find actual data on lock times of hammer fired vs striker fired rifles (I didn't) and I came across this: (You need to *Login* or *Register* to view media files and links)


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.22Hepburn Oldtimer Offline Posts: 803 Location: Pennsylvania Joined: Feb 18^th, 2008	Re: Ever heard of these? Reply #1 - Aug 4^th, 2018 at 8:41pm	Print Post
	I've never heard of this company/rifle, but they're sure not shy about pricing, ouch.


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Premod70 Oldtimer Offline Posts: 864 Location: North Carolina Joined: Jan 16^th, 2016	Re: Ever heard of these? Reply #2 - Aug 4^th, 2018 at 9:26pm	Print Post
	That's one beautiful hunting rifle, too pretty to hunt with though.


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.22Hepburn Oldtimer Offline Posts: 803 Location: Pennsylvania Joined: Feb 18^th, 2008	Re: Ever heard of these? Reply #3 - Aug 5^th, 2018 at 5:01am	Print Post
	At $18,000 (with no added options), I guess you could say that's a bit pricey for a hunting rifle.


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uscra112 Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 4079 Location: Switzerland of Ohio Joined: May 7^th, 2007	Re: Ever heard of these? Reply #4 - Aug 5^th, 2018 at 6:54am	Print Post
	Appears to be an individual gunsmith, not a company. Knowing what pals of my private banker son-in-law pay for shotguns, (which they might bring out once a year to shoot one round of skeet at the Sun Valley resort), the price doesn't surprise me at all. Wealth must display itself, especially when it's nouveau.

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rr2241tx Full Member Offline Posts: 104 Location: San Marcos Joined: Mar 27^th, 2012	Re: Ever heard of these? Reply #5 - Aug 5^th, 2018 at 11:38am	Print Post
	Eh, come on ya pikers! It's priced in Kiwi dollars, only about $12K base price plus you get to make at least 2 trips to NZ and maybe book a hunt so you don't have to bring home an unused firearm. Probably get to have no end of fun with Customs and BATFE when you get here as well. Sell a kidney, half your liver and your left cornea and you're nearly there. BTW, if you do buy one be sure to tell your wife to invite me to the garage sale.


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 16009 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: Ever heard of these? Reply #6 - Aug 5^th, 2018 at 2:07pm	Print Post
	rr2241tx wrote on Aug 5^th, 2018 at 11:38am: Eh, come on ya pikers! It's priced in Kiwi dollars, only about $12K base price plus you get to make at least 2 trips to NZ and maybe book a hunt so you don't have to bring home an unused firearm. Probably get to have no end of fun with Customs and BATFE when you get here as well. Sell a kidney, half your liver and your left cornea and you're nearly there. BTW, if you do buy one be sure to tell your wife to invite me to the garage sale. For the price they should include a free hunt in NZ!

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Schuetzenmiester Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 6707 Location: Cool Wet Side of WA Joined: Apr 27^th, 2008	Re: Ever heard of these? Reply #7 - Aug 5^th, 2018 at 3:46pm	Print Post
	Gorgeous rifle! One of my friends told me he had somewhere around $8k in one of Don Brown's Alex Henry ML If they were quick and easy, they would be on the shelf

	"some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." - D.H. Lawrence
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svartkruttgris#369 Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 2980 Location: Colorado, Norway, Sweden Joined: Oct 28^th, 2014	Re: Ever heard of these? Reply #8 - Aug 5^th, 2018 at 5:33pm	Print Post
	marlinguy wrote on Aug 5^th, 2018 at 2:07pm: rr2241tx wrote on Aug 5^th, 2018 at 11:38am: Eh, come on ya pikers! It's priced in Kiwi dollars, only about $12K base price plus you get to make at least 2 trips to NZ and maybe book a hunt so you don't have to bring home an unused firearm. Probably get to have no end of fun with Customs and BATFE when you get here as well. Sell a kidney, half your liver and your left cornea and you're nearly there. BTW, if you do buy one be sure to tell your wife to invite me to the garage sale. For the price they should include a free hunt in NZ! Excellent idea! Make that free (and multiply successful) NZ big game hunt an essential acceptance test. After all, that is what those rifles are designed for.


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ireload2 Full Member Offline Posts: 169 Joined: Jul 9^th, 2009	Re: Ever heard of these? Reply #9 - Sep 1^st, 2018 at 1:10am	Print Post
	I had a bit of disagreement with the principal owner operator of Soroka at Accurate Reloading over the materials he uses. Notice the breech block is 17-4 PH stainless. Well that is one of the very worst galling steels produced. In the surgical instrument business we had to take a lot of care in the design to make sure it would not gall. Even so when it was autoclave sterilized there was a chance you would have galling since you are not allowed to lubricate surgical instruments. Even so I investigated the failure of many hundreds of surgical instruments that galled due to poor design and use of 17-4 PH used in a sliding function or close fitting thread.


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OLD TUCK Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 469 Location: Middleborough MA Joined: Oct 5^th, 2017	Re: Ever heard of these? Reply #10 - Sep 1^st, 2018 at 11:10am	Print Post
	ireload2, I heartily agree. 27 Years of Making Optical Molds from Stainless. Ours were 420F SS and 440c Stainless. And these were Moving components against each other in high pressure/temperature conditions. Then 17 years in Orthopedic Tool Making prototypes and 17-4 was one of the materials of choice. I came to like it as I kept a supply of various sizes all Heat Treated as I found it Machined better Heat Treated. In both jobs Galling was an ever presented issue. But for the Optical Molding not really an option. We were Making High Quality Lenses. In the Operating instruments they were Development/Prototypes and or Static not active moving parts assembly's. When you think about it Rifle parts are not nearly as closely fitted as some of the stuff we did. And Lubrication is allowed. Would not want to depend on a Machine Gun out of 17-4. They do not like lots of Grease or the Hammering of components. Well enough. It was good to see someone else who felt as I have about the Faults of 17-4. Regards, FITZ. OLD TUCK.


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ray Participating Member Offline Posts: 18 Location: Waimate Joined: Jul 4^th, 2006	Re: Ever heard of these? Reply #11 - Oct 28^th, 2018 at 11:04pm	Print Post
	And if you don't want the hassle of dragging it home I can store it here in NZ, though it might pay to have your own safe with a secret combination. Probably collect you from the airport as well and put you up for a night or so!


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rkba2nd Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1912 Location: earth Joined: Feb 16^th, 2009	Re: Ever heard of these? Reply #12 - Oct 29^th, 2018 at 12:30pm	Print Post
	Men pay four or more times that for a pickup that will be ready for the crusher in 15 years, when this rifle will probably still be going strong in a hundred and still be worth in those dollars what was paid for it. Plus you can hug it!

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Gunfunpow Full Member Offline Posts: 239 Joined: Jun 20^th, 2018	Re: Ever heard of these? Reply #13 - Oct 31^st, 2018 at 11:58pm	Print Post
	Yup, that's a really nice rifle. But.... It's not an original Farq. Admit it. Isn't that what you really want?


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