Thread: Are Parker Hale's good for anything these days?

The stock is still made by McMillan , they call it the McHale .

RE: Parker Hale , yes most are basically a commerical Mauser 98 ( with out the thumb loading cut in the LH side rail ) , BUT the M85's receiver is quite different , its uses a 98 type bolt , but the receiver is a reinforced squared & enclosed top , and has a longer barrel tunion/thread in to better support a heavy barrel etc .

The bipod is the original PH bipod and mounts onto a metal spigot that sticks out of the front of the stock .

It also uses a excellent special 2 stage trigger made just for the M85 .