Parker Hale M85 Serial Number Checks & Provenance on Manufacture (Records)

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It's been a good while since my last post on this rifle, M85 0299F back in post35! but it's taken THAT long to get it in this shape as life kept getting in the way but I'm happy with the result. I bedded the action last weekend and she's ready for some range work, hopefully it'll shoot as well as I'm expecting as some effort has gone into it and I think it's a damn fine rifle. I'll report back with a 100yd target when I get a chance to shoot it, hopefully sometime soon. The scope is a 12x42 S&B with 7.62mm BDC turrets 100-600m not sure of the bullet weight they're calibrated for but my max elevation will be around there somewhere I guess, can't remember the range of MOA on the turret the mo. I'll be shooting 150g SMKs, see how that goes.
Thanks again Gill for putting me on to Bill at Norman Clark, a helpful and patient chap indeed, couldn't have completed it without all those spare parts!

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[MikeVee]

It's been a good while since my last post on this rifle, M85 0299F back in post35! but it's taken THAT long to get it in this shape as life kept getting in the way but I'm happy with the result. I bedded the action last weekend and she's ready for some range work, hopefully it'll shoot as well as I'm expecting as some effort has gone into it and I think it's a damn fine rifle. I'll report back with a 100yd target when I get a chance to shoot it, hopefully sometime soon. The scope is a 12x42 S&B with 7.62mm BDC turrets 100-600m not sure of the bullet weight they're calibrated for but my max elevation will be around there somewhere I guess, can't remember the range of MOA on the turret the mo. I'll be shooting 150g SMKs, see how that goes.
Thanks again Gill for putting me on to Bill at Norman Clark, a helpful and patient chap indeed, couldn't have completed it without all those spare parts!

Yours is the first I have seen of this weapon and accessories. The steel case, glass, sights, bolt, and bipod are so we'll designed and rugged. Please tell me is that bipod available for sale in the U.S.? Thanks

[Gil Boyd]

Can't find one of those carry cases anywhere. Tried mst Police Forces now in the hope, but I suppose its like most things, the guy running the Council tip is making a fortune selling them on to non riflemen!!!?

[Roy W]

Can't find one of those carry cases anywhere. Tried mst Police Forces now in the hope, but I suppose its like most things, the guy running the Council tip is making a fortune selling them on to non riflemen!!!?

Do you mean the Green metal transit cases?

[desperatedan]

Yours is the first I have seen of this weapon and accessories. The steel case, glass, sights, bolt, and bipod are so we'll designed and rugged. Please tell me is that bipod available for sale in the U.S.? Thanks

They're still listed on the modern day Parker Hale successor business website here - Parker Hale

They also list their US distributors on the site - see Distributors link on the bottom of their website pages.