Which Whitworth, Euro Arms or Parker Hale

[Steve499]

I'm going to just have to eventually buy a Whitworth rifle. Dixie Gun Works sells two different ones, one made by Euro Arms and one by Parker Hale/ Gibbs. The tore-betweens I'm having is the Parker Hale costs half again as much as the Euro Arms! I'm looking for opinions about whether Parker Hale is $450.00 better than Euro Arms or not. Anyone on here shooting a Whitworth? Tell me about it.

Steve

 

[Old Dragoon]

Steve499,
S & S Sales may sell both items. I know they are a Euroarms Distributor.
Call Phil at S&S sales and ask him his opinion. Oldelm got a very nice new Euroarms '58 Rem. from him. Oldelm asked Phil to check out the pistol for alignment, fit and finish and such before he sent the pistol . He did and Oldelm is really happy with the purchase and with S&S Sales.

Here's their info:
Ask for Phil.
S & S Sales
Telephone
718-497-1100
FAX
718-497-1105
Mailing Address
74-11 Myrtle Ave, Glendale NY 11385
EMail: [email protected]

 

[4v50 Gary]

Drop a dime and call S & S and share what they have to say about it.

 

[Old Dragoon]

I just looked at my downloaded S & S catalog portion of reproduction arms and I do not see a Whitworth listed there, maybe a special order?

 

[Steve499]

I called S&S and talked to Phil. What a nice guy! All the stories about rude New Yorkers are LIES! He said the Euro Arms Whitworths are made by Armi San Paulo (did I spell that right?) and that they also make the rifle for Parker Hale so it is the same gun!!! He said (the name of the honcho of A.S.P. which I forgot) was in New York a while back and showed him the Parker Hale stamp they were using on the rifles they made for Parker Hale. He priced a Euro Arms Whitworth to me a hundred dollars cheaper than Dixie's price, but I think I would have bought from S&S even if they hadn't been cheaper. I asked if he knew anyone using a Whitworth and what they were shooting out of it. He said a friend of his was shooting a paper patched 45/70 bullet without the paper patching out of one; that it measured .451 bare like that but that he could get me a mould which cast a polygonal hollow based bullet for the Whitworth for about $150.00 or so.

It will probably be July or thereabouts before I order it, gotta scratch up the loot, you know, without getting on the Mrs.'s bad side.

Thanks for the info, Old Dragoon, I owe you!

Steve

 

[4v50 Gary]

Thanks for sharing this news. I guess I call Steve myself for one of those bullet molds.

 

[Steve499]

4v50 Gary, do you own a Whitworth?

Steve

 

[4v50 Gary]

Parker Hale.

 

[hillbilly]

Did you see this product?

Sounds quicker and easier than casting bullets.

http://www.dixiegunworks.com/product_info.php?products_id=8084

 

[Manyirons]

!!!$115.00$!!! For THAT!? Wheesh! Better one get a nice Corbin bullet swaging press&dies and have something real and versitile across many calibers!!

Somebody in union city TN tryin ta retire off that one sale!!

Speaking of Dixie Guns, i'll be making a run down there in a few months, anyone got any LARGE items, or cost prohibative for shipment items ya want picked up and sent on? The 'Smith's DHL account is cheaper than dirt so transshipping once item is in hand is about 30% of whats ya pays ordinarily!

 

[hillbilly]

Manyirons, I've just looked at the Corbin web site.

Considering that the basic Corbin "S Press" lists for $329, without all the assorted gee-gaws, doo-hickeys, and other doomie-flodgies and thing-a-ma-jigs required for swaging bullets, I'd buy "that thing" for $115 in the proverbial heartbeat.

http://www.corbins.com/prices.htm#csp-1

But then again, that's just me.

But only about five minutes of looking around corbins.com convinced me very quickly that I really don't want any part of advanced bullet swaging.

hillbilly

 

[hillbilly]

Here's another page with what seems to be good info on shooting Whitworths.

http://www.civilwarguns.com/9709b.html