Thank you! It is up for auction in the UK and listed here: https://www.southamsauction.co.uk/au...on/?lot=536969
Thank you! It is up for auction in the UK and listed here: https://www.southamsauction.co.uk/au...on/?lot=536969
I appreciate it! Thanks for taking the time to look it up!Quote:
Originally Posted by mrclark303
No problem, always happy to help and sorry for the delay. Unfortunately the records aren't complete.
Hi all, just a reminder to please pm me a reminder as well as placing your request here for PH info. Unfortunately a family crisis means I can't regularly check in for the foreseeable...
Hello,
I’m looking to acquire M85 SN 00398F. I would be really grateful for any information on this one please!
Thanks in advance.
Hi mate,Quote:
Originally Posted by southwell
here we go, a reasonable amount of information on this one...
AVON & SOMERSET POLICE
GREEN NATO
18.6MM GROUP @100 YARDS 10 ROUNDS
SWAROVSKI 6 X 42 SCOPE FITTED S/N A5726005
MUZZLE THREADS
27TH MARCH 1990
00398F
Hope that helps...
Amazing thank you so much. The scope and barrel currently on it aren’t original then. Sadly no transit case either.Quote:
Originally Posted by mrclark303
Is there not a ban on releasing ex-police firearms to the public? So would these ex-police M85s have been released before then, similar to the ex-Bedfordshire and ex-Durham AI PM rifles? This particular M85 isn’t even in the UK at the moment but I’m arranging for it to be brought back.
I'm not sure regarding the rules and when they changed.Quote:
Originally Posted by southwell
I assume in much the same way as some L42's went off to the US and had to be re-imported. Certainly these days, all government furnished firearms are either destroyed, or end up shooting at Orcs in the Ukraine as part of an aid package.
Is there any info on Parker Hale M82, S/N - R_18606 (the R is underlined). 7.62 NATO barrel proofed to 20 tons, usual stock spacers, steel floorplate and trigger guard. I wonder if this was one of the refurbished C3 actions?
Many thanks