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Sorry for too big images.
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I wonder if it could be for the old 450/400 2 3/8th. inch Nitro Express. The Cordite load would be about right. Bullet weights went from 270 to 400 grain. Why the metric marks; unless for the Continental market. Isaac Hollis made a few of westley's guns. Lagopus.....
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I've only seen the .425 with the 410 gr bullet weight. It's marked as 346 max. I don't think it's a .425.
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10,75 mm is exactly 425.
S/n T6200 doesn't match to W.R. s/n's, that's why I asked who made this DR.
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Geno the WR .425 bullet diameter is .435. Confusing is'nt it?
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10,75 mm is diameter of plug, i.e. allmost barrel diameter of bore, not lands. Where do you see ammo id on flats? It will look like this 11 mm x 67 R.
Never heard about it?
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I've seen a Kynoch cartridge with a headstamp of 10.75mm with 347 grain bullet but I don't know if the case is the same. Google "Kynoch 10.75mm" should give some results. Would it by 10.75mm Mauser?
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It obviously isn't a .425 WR. Both the proof marks and the straight wall cartridges that I assume purport to fit it indicate a different cartridge. British rifles proved for .425 WR are marked 425EX, not 10.75mmEX, and are Cordite 65, 410 MAX. The .425 is a bottleneck cartridge.
British proof marks from this period for British cartridges weren't in metric. This rifle was built for a European cartridge, not British. The 10.75 rimless comes to mind (347 grain bullet), but the powder charge is wrong and the rifle appears to be chambered for a flanged case, although we don't have a photo from that angle, if the cartridge shown is correct. The 10.75 rimless is also a bottleneck cartridge. Only a chamber cast will suffice.
The T prefix doesn't automatically mean that the gun was made for Westley by someone else. This gun is from 1913/14. The barrels were struck up and signed by Lilley, Westley's best in those days.
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S/n T6200 doesn't match to W.R. s/n's, that's why I asked who made this DR. . Oops. I didn't see this one Geno. Yes it is a Westley serial number. 1913-1914.
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