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These pictures have been doing the rounds on Facebook because the owner isn't sure what they are or represent.
I've certainly never seen the circle with a C inside on the wrist strap of a No.4. or indeed the word SURREY stamped on the barrel.
Canadian target rifle?
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...standard-2.jpg
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...standard-3.jpg
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...standard-4.jpg
"Surrey" was a model / grade of sported rifle... marketed in CanadaQuote:
Originally Posted by Strangely Brown
The N prefix and lack of proper British manufacturer codings seem to be a mid/late '50s "commercial" No4Mk2 which has been previously discussed here.
The "circled C" is not a Canadian military/competition marking, it would be an "oval C".
Interesting to see more pictures of this one..
I have a similar rifle with serial N1767, I was told by the previous owner that it was part of a batch of about 50 rifles hand assembled[new parts] for Service Rifle competition in the early 1960`s,my one was used in the NZ Navy,don`t know who or where they were assembled. There is another similar rifle here in NZ. All the woodwork of mine is matching, hand numbered in pencil. Stuart.
Maybe Naval issue, both "Surrey" and "Stuart" are names of ships.
The "Surrey", "Suffolk" and "Sussex" conversions were low-budget sporterizations of No.1 and No.4 Rifles made up in the 1950s and perhaps 60s. I always thought they were done by Parker Hale, but perhaps not?