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This finally came in a week ago. It’s a Fraser best falling block in 400/360. The rifle is super tight when put together and getting cases sized to fit is a work in progress. Steve Bertram is helping me getting it up and running. The gun looks original and has a lot of case color and 95% barrel blue.





Ken

Brent,

It uses a threaded barrel and a threaded pin to lock the barrel in place. The pin screws into the indent in the barrel. The threaded pin is on the left side of the action and turns almost 360 degrees to its stop.





Locked position

Unlocked position

Ken

I keep coming back to look at this rifle whenever someone posts a comment, and I'm always reminded of a small crew of earnest, hardcore steampunk cosplayers I ran across in a pub in Paris in the last days of 2013. And I mean that in the best possible way. This thing is nuts. My inner cinematic props manager is agog. This rifle is wonderful to look at, and endlessly interesting to contemplate, technically. That lever. That barrel quick-detach mechanism. Those delicate express sight leaves, looking like they were hewn from metallic onionskin. That weird, partially-obscured chromed or nickelled bicycle-horn in the case in the first picture. The way the case's innards are perfectly-fitted along the pistol-grip. The severe, brutal, functional opulence and ornateness of the whole kit and caboodle.

What a treat. Best quality? Uh, yes.

Add me to the list of those who're curious about how it will shoot- and how you're managing creating digestible ammunition for it.

Kynamco still offer them on their website.

"Good afternoon. How may we serve you today?"

"Ahm. Ahem. I wish to... to brew filter coffee with my .404 Jeffery. I mean, well, it's embarrassing, but I've acquired a taste for potassium chlorate. I understand you might..."

"Please accompany me to the back room, sir."

My dear sir, I'd known about rousting corrosive salts out with boiling water, but I'd had no idea that such an implement existed to facilitate the process.

Learned something today. Merci.