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Originally Posted by SKB
JR: That would depend upon your desires for the rifle. The .375 flanged magnum is a very capable rifle for plains game at a distance and many older hunters just cannot utilize the cartridge to its full potential with iron sights. I love iron sights and shoot them much more than most hunters but I struggle with them way more than I did 10 years ago. I'm afraid at some point I will have to be shooting mostly scoped rifles. This particular gun has been re-chambered moving more into shooter category than collector. I see no reason not to add optics to it if that is what the owner would like. It certainly will not hurt the value of the gun and may very well bring added enjoyment to the current owner. It may not be a wise endeavor financially but that is not my call.

All valid points, Steve. But you can bet you will have to take your cheek off the comb to see through a scope, which is not conducive to accurate or comfortable shooting. A modern scope on this old double rifle is going to look like whitewalls on a Rolls Royce. Jmo, but a double rifle with a scope on it is an oddity.
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A double rifle is an oddity......


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It becomes about more than looks at some point. Any rifle that wears irons and a scope is a compromise, physics being what it is.

Well you could just buy a scoped bolt gun and be done with it:



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At this junction, it is really about completing the original package, if the rifle was made at factory and sighted in at factory with a scope.......them it deserves a proper period scope.
Whether it gets shot with iron sights or with the scope or never shot at all is really not the point of the exercise. IMHO.

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[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]

My reprint of a 1900’s Holland and Holland catalogue seems to have gone into hiding, so here is the same illustration from Wal Winfer’s book.

Your rifle differs in having the locking catch recess on the rear base, but the principle is the same. You put the scope on by sliding it backwards on to the dovetails until it meets the stops, and then the swing over lever rolls the catch in to the groove on the base to stop it moving forward on recoil.

If you can find a suitable Voightlander Skopar sight and are having mounts machined to fit the bases, why not at the same time have a second set made in which you can mount a straight tube 1 to 5 or thereabouts good quality modern scope mounted as low as you can without fouling the top lever, doing away with the peep holes for the open sights.

That would minimise differences in cheek weld. If the rifle was ordered for a scope to be fitted, Holland’s stocker probably incorporated some degree of compromise in the comb height.

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