Hi All,
Hmmm Sorry that just does not up :eek: for a start just after WW2 the Brno Plant was inside the Iron Curtain and the Communists were having nothing to do with the Corrupt West :roll: secondly the .308 cartridge did not exist until about 1955.
P-H's skilled workforce was quite capable of Blueprinting the action themselves so why pay outside labour to do it. At that time the call was :--
"Export or die"
Britain was producing as much as possible and exporting just anout it all to pay for the recent War. Rationing was still in place in Britian up until the late 1950's.
Now either that rifle has been re-barreled, which being a target rifle is extremely likely as target shooters re-barrel when their scores drop off and not particularly because the barrel is shot out :roll: if fact since then it's likely been re-barreled more than once.
Or the information is way of base.
I suspect a combination of both. If the rifle was built just after the war it would most likely have been chambered for either the 30-06 cartridge or the .303 british MkV11, or the Mkv111 or one of the Eley experiment .303 magnum cartridges with which the NRA and the target shooters were playing with to improve the long range performance of the std .303 cartridge.
