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A high price for a DP'ed "T" action & barrel I reckon!

Calibre/Item: Barrelled action 303
Make: BSA Lee Enfield
Model: No4T
Action: Bolt repeater
Serial No: M35341
Condition: Fair
Phone:
Price: $1000
Licence Number:
Advertised: 06/06/2022
Comment: BSA 1944 No4T barrelled action. This is a bare receiver and barrel, it’s missing most parts including the bolt. Barrel is worn but shootable. Action is marked DP on top of receiver so would need a good inspection. Has TR stamp, T stamp, S engraving. More photos available of these. SMS or email preferred due to work schedule.

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Originally Posted by CINDERS

Barrel is worn but shootable. Action is marked DP on top of receiver so would need a good inspection.

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I seem to remember a very knowlegable armourer saying :

Would YOU fire one? I’ve been an Armourer for a couple of years and while I or your local gunsmith could examine one and give it a bright clean bill of health, would YOU trust it. NO, I wouldn’t either!
And before I forget, let me remind you of something else too, JUST in case you’re tempted to buy one to use as spare parts. This is what the Armourers bible says. ‘……..it will be assembled as far as possible with components which are below the standard required for a service weapon’. And another thing you ought to remember. There were NO gauging limits for DP rifles. Mmmmmmm, food for thought there!

That’s about it. In my very limited experience as an Armourer and having overseen some of these DP programmes, I can tell you with certainty that they were all profusely marked DP so that their status was unambiguous. Agreed, some might be taken straight from stocks, but the rest ……………


Is the UK the only country that has legislation regarding advertising and that it must be legally and factually correct, and, the item being sold must be 'fit-for-purpose' ?

Selling a DP rifle as 'shootable'................. words fail me.