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Farquharson Rifle
Characteristics
The Farquharson Rifle/action was invented by John Farquharson of Daldhu, Scotland in the early 1870's. Farquharson was a poacher, gamekeeper, champion rifle shot and gun inventor during his lifetime. Farquharson's falling-block underlever design owes an obvious debt to Alex Henry. The Scottish riflemaker who is the Henry in the MArtini-Henry rifle design. Farquharson's design is very strong and is one of the few designs to make the transition from the black powder era to the smokeless powder era. Farquharson rifles have been manufactured over the last 130 years by Holland & Holland, Westley Richards, Gibbs, Jeffery and Ruger to name but a few. The Ruger No.1 is a Farquharson rifle. The Farquharson Rifle has been chambered from 22 Short to 600 Nitro Express and everything in between. It's a powerful and reliable design. The fact that rifles are still being manufactured with the "dropping block in solid steel" in 2009 speaks volumes for the engineering ability of John Farquharson.
Movies
- Val Kilmer as Col. John Patterson in The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)