Fluted and Threaded However, Peter Sarony, owner of Armalon Limited contacted us and generously offered to supply one of his new hammer-forged barrels for the project - a 26 inch heavy, fast-twist (1-7.874), fluted job. As the Remy barrel had been threaded at the muzzle for a sound moderator, Armalon provided this feature on the replacement as well.
Peter fitted it to our Remmy action and arranged proof-testing too, so in due course the barrelled action reappeared and very nice it looked too with an attractive profile, superb deep black finish and exceptionally crisp flutes with nice sharp edges. Put it back in the stock and the rifle took another big step forward in the looks department. The extra six-inches of barrel also changes its whole character too. It might have been a tad ‘over-barrelled’ if the skinny OEM Hogue stock were still in use but this length and weight of barrel complements the chunkier, heavier and longer Manners component perfectly. The faster twist will allow the use of heavier bullets too, 75 to 82gn and should still do fine with all but the most lightly constructed 40-52gn numbers – I’ll see when I get around to handloading for it.
But first, a bit more about Peter Sarony and Armalon. I’ll let Peter tell us his story in his own
words...
“I started out as a competition shooter from Cadet Pairs etc. shooting at school and then eventually onto handguns when I moved to Central London in the early 1960s after completing my architectural studies. John Cooke, an Olympic Free Pistol shooter, was the range officer at Marylebone RPC in the City and he gave me some invaluable coaching in the art of handgunning.
I was involved with every discipline from Free Pistol, through Standard Pistol, CF Precision, Police and Service Pistol and then became a founder life member of the UKPSA when Practical Pistol was launched into the UK. I eventually designed and built my own competition pistol plus one for a shooting colleague and when shooters started asking for similar handguns to be built or customised for them, that was the start of my career in the gun trade, originally from around 1978 as part of H&H Supplies and then as Practisport.
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In January 1984 we rolled Practisport into a new company, Armalon Ltd. There were many innovations and patents, including originating tritium illuminated handgun sights (which I called Lynx sights), my Perfector (a drop-in dual recoil spring guide/accuriser and buffer assembly for the 1911 pistol and derivatives) and quick-fit wide match triggers etc.
I also carried out a lot of experimentation with muzzle brakes on pistols as a result of which we developed the vertical multi-baffle design that is now used for our muzzle brakes for rifles. At the same time, we became involved with rifles - more particularly self-loading rifles - as a small group of UKPSA practical pistoleers and I actually started what is now the international sporting discipline of Practical Rifle.
My club, the London Practical Shooting Club, held the first International Championships over the early May Bank Holiday weekend in 1980 (PR ’80), which continued as an annual championship for the next 25 years. PR ’80 was an amazing event, written up in several magazines, including Guns & Ammo, held on two separate MoD gallery [xriflex] ranges, an Electric Target Range, the 1000 yards range at Stickledown plus an MoD Field Firing Range!
I developed a bullet-drop compensating tactical telescopic sight, which we had manufactured by what was then a medium sized family-owned optical sight manufacturer in Germany. We paid for the tooling and production on these scopes and the MoD asked for samples to try. They liked them and we discovered the GSOR for a new British sniper rifle system. We asked if we could submit our scopes for that tender but were told that the requirement was for the complete system - rifle and scope!
I teamed up with a fellow small-arms engineer Baron Derk von Hulse (a practical pistol shooter), and we developed the BGR ‘British German Rifle’ - or as Derk christened it the ‘Bloody Good Rifle’! We were then advised that the tender date had closed and
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