Holland and Holland rook rifle

26" octagon barrel. Barrel markings read "Holland and Holland 98. New Bond St. London" on the right hand side, and "Winners of All the Field Rifle Trials 250 Semi Smooth Bore" on the left hand side. Serial numbers on the barrel and receiver match. Steel is all in nice shape.

Bore shows some light pits but is still bright with good rifling. Lockup is tight. Some of the screws have tooling marks. Would make an excellent restoration project. Or rebore to 22 hornet, 32-40, 410 etc. Fairly common.  And you get to have a cheaper Holland and Holland rifle/shotgun. 

Around 1900 Holland & Holland brought out the slightly larger 297/250 Rook Rifle cartridge, sometimes listed as the .250. This is what is consider as the smallest of the true Rook rounds as it was designed especially for this purpose rather than being an adaptation from a round initially developed for a different one. This round fired a heavier 56 grain bullet using 6½ grains of Black Powder giving a velocity of 150 fps and 165 Ft. lbs. at the muzzle. H&H employed what they termed as their Semi Smoothbore barrel in an effort to prevent bore fouling which is an ever present problem with the old Black Powder in such a narrow tube

I bought a fully functional 300 rook rifle and am looking to sell this one off to buy reloading supplies, im considering removing the sights from this to have as spares and lowing the price.

 297/250 rook dies can be bought at CH4D, brass can be made from 22 hornet, and 25 acp bullets are used. 

I will trade. Im looking for 318 Westley Richards barrel and components, 300 rook dies, zg47, p17 actions, 404 jeffery brass too. Im trying to build a 500 jeffery or 505 gibbs so components for those too