Harry,
This 297/250 I. Hollis Martini was purpose made and cataloged as a rook rifle. For that matter Greenwood did include miniature Snider rook rifles.
Hello Joel,
Hollis may have built the rifle but it was chambered for what is reality, is a military or Cadet training cartridge. Hardly a Rook Rifle cartridge, although some may have used it for such a purpose. I'm also aware of the miniture Snider actions but these were built from scratch and in the correct proportions to fire Rook Rifle cartridges, they weren't built on a converted military rifle. What a tradesman calles the items he produces may be done to sell the item, but it may not conform to that ideal that purists call a
Classic Rook Rifle. It's not all that different to all revolvers being called 'Colt's' and all lever actions being called Winchesters, it simply isn't true IMO. It all boils down to personal opinion in the end.
Harry
