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ELMER KEITH'S PERSONAL CUSTOM MAUSER RIFLE - 285 OKH - PICTURED IN 1969 GUNS AND AMMO ANNUAL!
Guns International #: 103063088 Seller's Inventory #:
Category: Custom Rifles - Mauser Rifles
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Description:
ELMER KEITH'S CUSTOM MAUSER RIFLE -
CAL: 285 OKH -
OWN A PIECE OF HISTORY! - RIFLE IS PICTURED ON PAGE 58 OF GUNS & AMMO 1969 ANNUAL (COPY SUPPLIED WITH GUN) -
Elmer Keith, a renowned firearms expert and writer, was instrumental in the development of various wildcat cartridges, including the .285 OKH. This cartridge was part of the OKH series, named after its developers: Charles O'Neil, Elmer Keith, and Don Hopkins. The .285 OKH was essentially a .30-06 Springfield case necked up to accept a .285-inch bullet, aiming to enhance ballistic performance for hunting applications.
Elmer Keith, a renowned firearms expert and writer, was instrumental in the development of various wildcat cartridges, including the .285 OKH. This cartridge was part of the OKH series, named after its developers: Charles O'Neil, Elmer Keith, and Don Hopkins. The .285 OKH was essentially a .30-06 Springfield case necked up to accept a .285-inch bullet, aiming to enhance ballistic performance for hunting applications.
The American black walnut stock was built specially to Keith's specifications by none other than C. W. Frost and rates very good to excellent with some minor handling marks and a number of light drying cracks in the highly figured wood from the years. The stock is Monte Carlo style with flared tapering left-side cheekpiece and a "No-Shoc" solid rifle pad giving a 13 1/4" length of pull to the front trigger. The forend tip is polished hard rubber in a nice schnabel fashion with a matching gripcap. There are checkered panels at the forearm with the grip in a wrap-around pattern, each with loose foliate accents with background stippling, the right side of the grip with a prominent raised "Wundhammer" knob with carved capital "K" at center, a feature common to other rifles favored by Mr. Keith. Amenities include double set triggers, a lever-release floorplate and quick-detach sling swivel studs. The rifle is sighted with a banded sporting ramp front sight with simple sourdough blade, custom rear quarter rib with three folding express-style sights, and the bolt shroud is fitted with a custom "Gus" Pachmayr aperture sight, fully adjustable for windage and elevation, the aperture actually able to fold out of the way for use with the express sights. A custom August Pachmayr pivot telescopic sight base and ring set is incorporated, the front base actually soldered beneath the quarter rib, the rear base drilled and tapped to the left side of the action. The rings mount a Lyman Alaskan 2 3/4x scope with post and crosshair reticle and very good optics. Arguably the most famous of Keith's rifles, repeatedly written up and illustrated in his books and used in the legendary duplex load / flash tube priming experiments; Keith had no chronograph and estimated 3200 f.p.s. with the very long but beautifully proportioned 180-gr. Western Tool and Copper spitzer bullets, these in a necked down .30-06 case (!) (..that's .300 Weatherby Magnum territory!). The rifle is discussed and illustrated in myriad articles and books and included with the gun is an original box of .285 OKH along with a neat example of a sectioned round, showing the long interior flash tube; Keith later sold the rifle to his friend and oft-time hunting partner H. Nelson Busick. Really a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own this legendary rifle, accountable for so much game and the subject of great experimentation with Keith's "forward ignition" flash-tube rounds.
MAUSER ACTION
INTERGRAL A.M. PACHMAYR FLIP-UP PEEP SIGHT MOUNTED ON REAR SHROUD
27" BARREL W/ QUARTER RIB AND THREE FOLDING EXPRESS SIGHTS.
BANDED AND RAMPED FRONT SIGHT
DOUBLE SET TRIGGERS
LYMAN ALASKAN SCOPE MOUNTED ON FLIP-OVER BASES
NICELY FIGURED AMERICAN WALNUT STOCK W/ MONTE CARLO CHEEKPIECE.
VERY UNIQUE PERSONALIZED RAISED AND RELIEF CARVED "K' (KEITH) IN RIGHT GRIP PANEL
POINT CHECKERED PATTERN CHECKERING WITH FLORAL LEAF INSETS.
EBONY SCHNABLE FOREND TIP
NO-SHOC SOLID RED RUBBER PAD
DIMS: 13 1/2" LOP
WEIGHT: 9LBS 13OZ
48pcs - 285 OKH primed brass included with this rifle.
CONDITION: GUN IS IN EXCELLENT "AS-FOUND" CONDITION. BORE CLEAR. TRIGGERS CRISP. BLUING WITH SLIGHT THINNING AT CARRY POINTS. WOOD OIL EXCELLENT W/ SCANT AND VERY LIGHT IMPRESSIONS. OPTICS CLEAR.
GENTLEMEN, THIS IS A FINE AND HISTORIC RIFLE OWNED BY THE RENOWNED AND REVERED NORTH AMERICAN HUNTER AND WRITER ELMER KEITH! A BEAUTIFUL GUN WITH HISTORY! PLEASE CALL NOW!
FFL REQUIRED (C&R OKAY)
FLAT $100 S/H/I
CARD FEE APPLIES
Price: $7,500.00
Curio/Relic: Yes
Manufacturer: CUSTOM MAUSER
Barrel Length: 27
Condition: EXC
Metal Condition: EXC
Wood Condition: EXC
Bore Condition: EXC
Triggers: DOUBLE SET