Wallack & Holmes

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Anybody have any info on Wallach & Holmes?
Mauser action -- 30" x 1 1/4" barrel 22-250
All I know is Wallach was a gun writer/ gunsmith in the 50's.
 
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I believe Wallack, and his wife were early benchrest shooters, such as when the game started. Holmes was a early barrel maker.
 
I found the following on a nother forum from 2010 Does it jog anyones memory?

L R Wallack ( Wallack & Holmes, Inc. of Mayfield, NY) was a precision gunsmith who was a champion benchrest shooter. Wallack also became an advertising man and I believe he ran the advertising for at least Marlin firearms through his advertising agency. Wallack wrote quite a bit for the gun magazines in the 1950's and '60's. His loading review of the 256 Win Mag and the Marlin Model 62 is good reading today. The 250 Helldiver is one of his wildcats and is described in several books of the late 1950’s. I believe it is pictured in Townsend Whelens book: “The Ultimate in Rifle Precision.”
 
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Morgan Holmes made the stocks. I had a wonderful .219 Wasp on a Mauser action stocked by Morgan Holmes many, many years ago. It was a first class rifle.
 
Bob Wallack was the gunsmith, rifle maker, and also an excellent BR competitor. Holmes was the stockmaker. Together they produced some beautiful firearms. I've seen two, both in 219 Don Wasp. One is a heavy bbl single shot, Mauser action with double set triggers, which I own. It has a beautiful laminated BR stock. Action to wood fit is superb. The other was also a mauser with a sporter bbl. Finish was excellent. The stock was beautifully engraved and from an external look was also well fitted. I passed on buying it because the original seriel number was missing and nothing was added to replace it. I assume it was made, put together, before the law about seriel numbers went into effect way back when. Wallack and Holmes did much of their work together in the late forties and fifties. I believe their shop was in NYS or Pa. The BR Mauser has a high place in my collection. It's top accuracy days are past but it will still do 1/2" at 100 yds even with a bit of throat erosion.
 
Bob Wallach was a Bench Rest shooter as was Betty Wallach. I have a picture of Betty at the Johnstown matches in 1949. I have a picture of Bob circuit unknown.
 
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