My sincere appologies for that, Imagine my suprise when a freind of mine who had been on a shooting and conservation trip was offered an old no1 mk111 which had a reasonable barrel on it and was still militarily configured, which he then proceeded to pay $50 for it just to keep the old farmer happy as he wanted to dispose of it. When this rifle was brought up in conversation, the curios thing was it was drilled and tapped and had a heavy barrel. Straight away the old ears pricked up and those rusty old cogs got to grinding. What would be the posibility of this being an original sniper. Upon mentioning this my freind got in contact with an aquaintance who was also a gun smith and hey presto lo and behold it was. The said pot of gold was then subsequently traded for a no1 mk111 marksman variant and a mosin nagant sniper repro.
So i suppose the moral to the story is you dont have to be rich sometimes just in the right spot at the right time.
Happy hunting
Regards
Fergs