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This interface in the changeover from Mk2 to Mk3 production is fascinating, & I suspect there is more to it than we generally suppose. The photo's of the enclosed scope (it belongs to a friend in SA)...

Hi Ron. Yes, rimfire self loading rifles are all our government trusts us to own since Hungerford. The husband of a lady in my French lessons (no, straight up, I do a weekly conversational French...

The likely second pattern in Post 12 also has an unusual feature, which I would suggest in this case is probably an oversight on the part of the engraver, rather than an attempt to hoodwink - note...

Hi Hatrick. It looks like it had the modified PPCo dovetail rings ('Bartle' mounts??) originally, although it also looks like it may have had other rings fitted after the event as well. The fact that...

That's reassuring news, gents!

Re Progress with this rifle. I've now removed the welded in metal plate that was blocking the mag well. Last night I carefully ground off the remaining vestiges of...

Sorry, Salt Flat, I just noticed I didn't answer your question about how the liners are secured in these .22 trainers. I have only ever owned three of this particular pattern, & all were sleeved .303...

She's a real peach. I can't get over what exemplary condition she's in. Most of the early rifles I've come across tend to be pretty well travelled, with pitting along the barrel/wood line, pitting of...

My wife says my garage workshop is such an (expletive) mess she won't go in there.....................................so being a sloppy bugger has its advantages.
Seriously, it is well overdue a...

I'd just like to have a few conveyors, so as to be able to fill the mag., although I wouldn't want to shoot it regularly.......more of a collector's item. A development blind alley, if you like.

Just had a rummage in the GR & amazingly the couple of conveyors that I thought I had were indeed where I thought they were! That's unusual! There are three there, but someone has spoiled one by over...

Last week a pal & I went up to Sheffield to visit an old friend who is shortly intending to give up his UK RFD. Over the years he has amassed various odds & ends & I was able to do a deal with him on...

Geoff, I can't remember his name but I did have a couple of minor deals with him some years ago. He was standing over my shoulder when I picked up an original SMLE wire breaker & was busting a gut to...

As mentioned my friend had fifty made, probably about seven or eight years ago. He hasn't exactly marketed them aggressively, & when sold via a third party for him they were not cheap, selling for...

I think Fultons of Bisley had a run made both in metric & inch diameter to offer choice to the punters. My pal David also had a batch of fifty made at the same time & most of them have been retailed...

These mounts have been available for some time from two different outlets over here in the UK, although I think both only made smallish production runs (I know one consisted of fifty brackets). If...

Well, I've had a look for you Hatrick, but no luck I'm afraid. I did find a few other useful parts that I'd forgotten that I'd got, but no lower part of the two piece range rings........sorry. Whilst...

If the rifle was indeed made in 1897 & has been in 303 calibre all of its life, without getting modified over time, it will be calibrated for round nose 215gr bullets of the Mk2/6 pattern.

Yes, it looked a bit 'different' to me........rather more similar to some of the Fuess/PPCo & similar types. I'll have a look at my scopes & have a rummage through my spares, all the same.
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Hi Hatrick. That's a tough request to satisfy! Pretty sure I don't have a spare, but I do have a small box of assorted parts that Roger Cleverly gave me many moons ago. It is stashed away somewhere,...

If you look carefully at the photo of the butt socket, it looks like a 'B' above the date of 1942. If that is indeed the case those markings are typical for BSA at that time (1941, 1942, & into early...

It looks like a BSA 1942 to me. As Husk says it has acquired a Savage range serial number at some point. If it bears AA somewhere on the butt socket that may indicate Indian use at some time.

As a general observation, Mk1 scopes were still being manufactured into 1944 by William Watson. I have had a number of them over the years & am rebuilding one currently. They've all been in the 14XXX...

Suspect it is a standard No4, rather than a 4T.

Ditto that. Hope you're feeling back to 100% soon.

That is true, but as is often the case what happened in practice wasn't always what the rules dictated! I have owned several Savage Mk1* T's that bore 2 groove tubes, & still do have one. They all...