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Certainly screwed and soft soldered, pins front and rear? Bloody hard to tell, I suppose that is all they could be, why else would those humps be there.

They could be pins, even under the magnifying glass I can't tell, if they are, they are a very tight fit.

I will have to have better look, it is an Israeli No4 Mk1 T. It seems to be all correct to me, although there is very little information on these conversions. If somebody does have any information...

Israeli markings.

Issued with a No9.

Its a shame its been cut down, but its a lovely little hunting rifle. Very nice grain on the timber.

I painted it about 10 years ago and boy I got some stick for it! Its really just a collection of rubbish parts tarted up for a bit of a giggle. Serious collectors don't seem to be too upset by it but...

Yeah I had to scratch my head a few times but finally remembered all of them. Cataloged 50 of them so far and still a few more to go. Yes there are some nice cast off examples!

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Well the rifle itself was an ex English made MkIII which had been FTRed in India, the barrel is stuffed and the bolt is miss matched. Somebody then tried to do a volley sight conversion to the...

Yeah the No4 has had some treatment. I stole the colours for the No1 from this.

Yes I have taken a bit of flak for that one. A few people thought it was a photoshop job. Did you notice the other one?

Finally decided to catalogue my Lee's. Got a lot of them done, but still more to go. Grabbed a few quick photos before they went back in the safe.

That rifle went to Aussie, in fact one of the members here bought it.

I wouldn't worry too much about being banned. How did he know your handle on trademe? I know its not RJW.

Yeah it was a pretty damn good quake, longest I have ever felt, just over 30 seconds from reports.

The seller is a good story inventer, well known to trademe users.

The rifle may not be genuine, but I think you still did very well. And far less pain on the wallet!

Nice rifle! We are very lucky here in NZ, we have lots of very nice 42 long branch No4's. Mint examples can still be found at auctions.

Yes Jc5, the sight base does appear thicker than a normal Lee one. As the action and barrel match, the sight must have been added later.

Your carbine also appears to have express rear sight on it, which would have come from a Lee sporting carbine. Does the barrel number match the action? If it does not then the barrel and sight...

Good luck finding a nose cap and band. Here is a Metford carbine of mine that gives you an idea of how they look.

Well 5th Batt beleives it to be genuine, I concurr, and Ian Skennerton believes it to genuine, to the extent of mentioning it in his latest book (look it up if you care to) While 5th Batt and I might...

I think that the rifle was rebuilt by Lithgow, I forgot to add that the receiver is marked NZ and has a sale mark, proving that this was its configuration (BSA/Lithgow mix) during military service....

Yes, Ian Skennerton inspected this rifle in person. I was with 5th Batt at the meeting and have inspected this rifle many times. Every component on the rifle is BSA (with matching serial numbers),...

"So the 210 rounds the guy has fired since putting in another bolt have stretched or stressed the receiver walls enough to draw them back in around the charger bridge? Neat."

So your telling me...