Originally Posted by
Thunderbox
A lot of shooters in UK who rushed out to buy these NIW rifles (at a premium price) have been disappointed with the shooting results. Not only does it often take 200-300 rounds for the barrel to reach optimum performance, but the rifles themselves often need adjusting. The rifles were massed-produced - often there appears to have been no attempt made to fit the forend properly - and then wrapped up for 50+ years. The wood has since seasoned further, and the rifles have never been bedding-checked and zeroed as they would have been before service issue.
One day, the last remaining wrapped rifles will be fetching $x thousand in rarity value alone. Todays' owners are better off keeping them wrapped as an investment, and buying a mint unwrapped version to shoot.....