Now there's something ya don't see every day, a super rare scope and mount,
Could this be the Greek sniper carbine that belonged to the famed freedom fighter ... ?
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Now there's something ya don't see every day, a super rare scope and mount,
Could this be the Greek sniper carbine that belonged to the famed freedom fighter ... ?
Oy! Well, at least it's not going to be mistaken for an original Canadian sniper rifle.
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Originally Posted by RJW NZ
Yeah, some of us need a lot more info to put the whole thing into context.
Why????????
A while back there was two threads that persisted on jouster, one about a probably mythical JC sniper rifle that belonged to a forum member which had an imaginary highly illustrious history, it was an exaggeration based on grandfathers rifle brought home from the war that was used to kill Hitler kind of story, trouble is that it also had a grain or two of truth to it and I never found out which was what.
The other story was about a scoped JC that was stolen in the US/Canada and a number of members from different forums really put some effort into tracking it, the story was taken quite seriously but I came on the scene after it had begun and never quite got the core details. I wonder if I've accidentally had a picture of it in my computer the whole time. I have no idea where I found this picture, possibly at an auction sight.
A lot of jouster members are here these days and I was wondering if someone could shed some light on the whole thing, hence my tongue in cheek post.
If I remember it was "Goo's" story and as you say seemed to be very convoluted and involved shooting Hitler on the D-day beaches just off North Africa in 1955 (yes 55 - not a typo) or some such.
Maybe Goo is still alive and well and someone may get the question passed to him.
Yep, thats the story, lol, a load of fun ...
OK - I've 'bitten the bullet' and contacted Goo and asked him to either post the story up on here or let me have it to post - lets see what happens.
And while you're talking to him Al, ask him to come here and publish some more of those absolutely stunning airoplane pics
I miss Goo too ...
Taking a different track, that scoped No5 has been made up in the past from a written off/scrap Lyman TP No4 in the days of plenty. I expect that in the near future the Lyman scope, bracket and body mount will find themselves mated up to a 'suitably marked' No4 and emerge thereafter as a genuine No4 TP. The unsuspecting will fall for it but hopefully, the knowing will be fore-armed, using the info that they've gleaned from this site.
As I say and have said many times. It's EASY putting a telescope onto a rifle. It's much HARDER putting a telescope onto a rifle optically and mechanically correctly.
As a matter of interest, in the 90's or so we rebarrelled our No4TP and what a palava................. The barrel was badly pitted so a new F55 barrel (still original or what............) was fitted. The body mount wouldn't allow the use of the body and barrel clamp/spanner so that had to come off. Once it was replaced and sweated on, true to form, the optical axis if the telescope didn't align with the new barrel bore and the tapered locating pegs made any notion of fine adjustment impossible. I did it but what an effort
A scoped No5 "Jungle carbine" I viewed recently was actually made up using a No4T action with an original No32 Mk2 scope & mount.
It was put together in the late 1980s for the Practical Rifle competitions.