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Tomorrow I am going to drive just 70 miles to look at a bolt action .375 H&H built by the company in 1995 I think.
It belongs to a lady guide who worked for a safari company in the province of Natal and she had bought it from an H&H group that had hunted with them nineteen years ago. I need to inspect the correctness of her words to me that she had never fired more than five shots with it, and that it was brand new when brought to South Africa by H&H in 1999.
Depending on our negotiations I may be the owner of an original Holland and Holland .375 end of tomorrow.
So I looked at the Holland & Holland - beautiful and of course expensive due to its ancestry. Then they also showed me another family heirloom: A 1999 Musgrave, like the Holland & Holland built on a 98 Mauser action, also in .375 H&H. Impeccable - in fact unblemished - virtually virgin in appearance, it has fired maybe six shots in its life. In the end I bought the Musgrave for 1/5th of the price of the original H&H built rifle.
In fact the rifles appear as virtual twins in size and shape. The Musgrave has a hammer forged barrel from South African steel and the Brit must have Sheffield ancestry, so both these rifles will outlast 4 generations of hunters.