Shocked, just shocked, old chap
I've been browsing the Fulton's site this afternoon and this is a paragraph on their 'History' page.
Fultons of Bisley web site; History
Brief History On Development Of Target Rifles
For many years' from 1920 until the advent of the P'14 rifle in 1935, the S.M.L.E. was the only weapon permitted for the S.R. shooting under the N.R.A. Rules, and in the early days of that rifle's history the continuance of rifle shooting as a competitive sport undoubtedly hung in the balance. It was at this time that the pioneering work done by Mr. A. G. Fulton at Woolwich and in his spare time on privately-owned rifles which resulted in the process known as "packing" did a great deal to bring about some sort of "leveling-up" of the standard of shooting obtained from these otherwise extremely inaccurate weapons. By careful controlling the barrel vibrations, and skillfully adjusting the "packing" material so as to stiffen the otherwise weak barrel and action without restricting the expansion of the former, an extremely high degree of accuracy was obtained which enabled the size of the bullseye at all ranges to be reduced twice during this period
I'm very surprised to see that P14's didn't arise until 1935?! I though they were much earlier.
plus, its sort of blasphemy for the honored Fultons to call the smle 'extremely inaccurate'. shocked. but, if thats what they can do with such a piece of rubbish I imagine they'd do pretty well with a decent rifle.lol.
I actually have a real, potentially, silly, Q.
Ok, I have a no1 mk3 target rifle from Fultons, BSA made, undated but probably 1920's/30's. The stamp on the knox form is 'G.Fulton'. I keep hearing endless speculation that this was perhaps one of G's personnel rifles.
Does anyone know what was the stamp that Fultons put on No1Mk3's during this period? I've seen plenty of others, ie Regulated by Fultons. and Fultons, but not G. Fulton.
