.358 Norma Mag, Custom BRNO VZ24 by Nick Von Flue, Master Gunmaker, 99%
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Seller: rcrwin70
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First Name: Roger
State: Hawaii
Country: United States
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Description:
SOLD ** .358 Norma Magnum, Custom BRNO VZ24, Master Gunmaker, #11 of 12, Like new condition.
Custom BRNO VZ24, .358 Norma Magnum, BRNO VZ24 action, 23” Shilen barrel. By Master gun maker, Nick Von Flue.
This is an amazing find you can only encounter once every 30 years, if that. This fabulous rarity was built as one of twelve in Nick’s Masterpiece Series. For his masterpiece series, Nick chose different renowned actions and pared them up with great overlooked cartridges.
The grand maker chose a highly figured, twenty-year-dried, special select piece of dark English Walnut with beautiful black and brown combinations of fiddle-back and feather-crotch figure, similar to Holland & Holland’s favorite stock color and grain choice.
For metal work, the rifle includes a Masterpiece ramped front sight with push-button detachable hood, and an Express rear sight with 3 leaves, one standing and two folding, marked for 100, 200 and 300 yards.
The great Mauser action has a Mauser style bolt slightly canted rearward (not nearly as much as a Model 70) with a 5-panel checkered bolt knob, a side swing safety, and a Timney ribbed trigger. Undermetal consists of a one piece steel hinged floorplate with center bow release. The accessory metalwork includes a barrel band front sling eye, a two-screw inletted rear sling eye, and a pistol grip cap with two flush and indexed screws.
For the woodwork, Nick chose a classic style stock and shaped it with open grip and a contoured cheekpiece with sculptured shadowline, a carved stock relief around the bolt release housing, a forearm tip of Makassar Ebony, a classic Westley Richards checkering pattern of 24 lpi, which is gernerously wrapped around the forearm. LOP is 13 5/8” over a 1” genuine Silvers pad as used by both H&H, Westley Richards, and Rigby.
Inscriptions read: “CESKOSLOVENSKA ZBROJOVKA BRNO” and “VZ24” and “358 Norma Magnum” and “Nick Von Flue Masterpiece Series No.11 of 12”
About the action: In Part III, “Commercial Rifles & Actions” of Bolt Action Rifles, by Frank de Haas, the author’s first sentence states: “If you have a military rifle or action with Ceskoslovenska Zbrojovka BRNO and VZ24 stamped on the receiver, you own one of the very best Model 98 types ever made.”
About the cartridge: As recently as the August 2009 issue of Guns & Ammo magazine, Terry Wieland listed the .358 Norma Magnum as the 7th best belted cartridge (including magnums and non-magnums) of all time in his article, “Best Up! A Shooter’s Top 10: The Best Belted Rifle Cartridges Ever Developed” and I quote:
“The .358 [Norma Magnum] was originally chambered in the fine Schultz & Larsen rifles of the 1960s and became a standard moose cartridge in Sweden, where it is still enormously popular. For bear and moose, you could not ask for better. I once knocked a Texas nilgai right off its feet with one. What more can I say?”
Terry could have added the only other gun maker to issue the .358 NM as a standard chambering, was the Swedish maker Husqvarna, in their Model 1651.
About the Master Gunmaker: After years of working with such greats as Al Biesen, Maurice Ottemer, John Vest and Jim Davis, and with retirement approaching, Nick Von Flue created twelve rifles for his personal masterpiece series. Nick was considered a perfectionist among his peers. His metal to wood fit as well as his tasteful stock designs and craft -- in every way -- are rivaled by none. He was a master at both metal- and wood-work. While much of his work was accomplished in Montana, for retirement, he moved back to his home state of California, where he still lives in the small town of Adin in NE California.
Shown here with Nikon Monarch 2-8x32 scope (a perfect paring for this caliber, both in magnification and size, necessary for easy wielding) in classic Leupold one-piece pivot mount (we often forget a coin in your pocket affords the option of removing the scope for iron sights’ use). This rifle has perfect dimensions coming to point of aim like an extension of your arm.
This handcrafted ensemble of the gunmaker’s art would cost $11,500 if commissioned today. Priced here to sell, $4,450.
Seller is the author of The Rifleman’s Rifle (Winchester pre-64 Model 70s) and will furnish a Letter of Provenance that this gun is from his collection of Great Guns. Please check out author’s feedback on ebay under rcrwin70roger. 3-day non-firing inspection for full refund, shipping is $35 to buyer’s FFL, payment by MO, certified check , wire transfer or personal check with wait for validation.
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