Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Express Rifles and Big Bores Only The great 458 Winchester. Everyone should own one at least once

Pieter in Zambia has this African he might want to sell:

















Looks like it has been rode hard and put up wet by original owner.
Since it is of 1962-1963 shipping, it cannot be the one that belonged to Jack Lott.
But Jack did drop his on the ground in nearby Mozambique in 1959.
And Wally Johnson did pick it up and finish killing the buffalo for Jack.

Anyway, from the looks of it, it has been sandblasted with real sand to remove the rust, and then re-blued,
and then rusted some more. No jeweling remains on action parts that I can tell,
and the sandblasting has blurred the roll marks and serial number.
The stock re-finish looks to have been done more expertly, still has the original Bakelite plugs.
Sir Jerry hates plastic plugs hiding crossbolts in a stock.
He says even Lulu Roman on Hee Haw would never bake lite.

If in excellent condition it would be an $8K rifle.
It is not.
Would any of the Knights of the Square Table care to take a stab or a chop at a price with whatever swords, Bowies or hatchets they are packing ?
I cross my fingers that there is some rifling left in the bore,
and the Aimpoint is not hiding a boogering of the receiver top.