The actions were excellent but the barrels were rough. They whot a lot better when rebarreled. Some of the stocks were really nice on the 1200.
I dispute the barrels being rough as a matter of course..I'm pretty sure that P-H made barrels in the white for Rigby at one stage and in latery ears there was certainly nothing wrong with the barrels on the P-H M85 sniper rifle..
In fact P-H were know for the quality of their barrels:
"Large scale horizontal forging machines, the first all-British barrel cold forging systems in the world, were actually designed by Parker-Hale. Together with several GFM cold forging machines and double spindle deep hole drillers, the company's machining capability for producing a perfectly finished bore to extremely fine tolerances is legendary."