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Take a small hammer and just tap the front and rear edges of the top of the dovetail on the sight base until it holds the sight blade tight again.

Ken,

Email direct to bdlltd@bellsouth.net. My replies are failing via the forum.

Brian

I don't grind it up. I just place some cut alkanet roots in a quart jar and fill it up with raw linseed oil. I've never cut the RLO with turps as it's not necessary IMHO. If you're in a hurry, use...

The Sunnyside brand RLO is also available through Tru-Value Hardware stores. I found it in Greenwood, SC about 30 miles north of here. It's a bit cheaper there than on Amazon with the shipping.

That's correct.

There's not much info to give. The importation of surplus military barrels was banned in 2005 during the Bush administration. There are organizations likr FAIR and NFATCA that have petitioned to...

Use raw instead of boiled linseed oil and it'll penetrate better.

If he wants to bring it down permanently, it needs to be imported on an ATF Form 6 and transferred through a dealer just like any "new" import. There is a method for an individual bringing personal...

I agree on all points. I've noticed over the years as I've seen quite a few Johnson rifles, that the butt is very fragile where it's thin around the tang. They are almost always chipped or cracked....

I imported quite a few surplus US military firearms over the years including a half dozen of those 1897 trench guns I bought from a dealer in Ontario. Yes, it was a bit of a hassle to jump through...

It can be done but there are additional hoops to jump through on the US side. US military firearms require a retransfer authorization letter from US Department of State before they can be approved on...

Or deploy a reserve chute if the main fails! The USA Rangers jumped on Grenada without their reserves from 500 feet! You can't react quick enough to deploy a reserve from that height, let alone 200'.

Thanks for the suggestion. I don't have the time to spend looking at auctions. I have a line on a detailed but nonmilitary service manual. He has a spare copy he's sending so I'll have to see if it's...

Is TM 9-6131 for the M84 scope available anywhere? I have a good friend in Canada looking for a copy. He has one of the Italian M1D rifles. Thanks for any help you can provide.

Brian

I like both of your rifles Mr. Clark. I have two 1903A4 snipers. One with a Lyman like yours except an M82. The other with a Weaver M73B1. The Lyman is so much better that I seldom shoot the one with...

This is the right time of the year to finish wood in the South. I get three times the work done in half the time using good old Mother Nature.

I think I'm repeating myself again but here goes....

Boiled linseed oil is more like varnish with chemical driers. Get some raw linseed oil that will oxidize with age and color the wood a bit in the process. A reasonable color match was all that was...

It doesn't look to me like it's been treated badly overall. Even the excellent condition Maltby rifles can sometimes look a bit on the rough side. That's what tells me they're original and haven't...

Hmm, I never thought of that. They both have the low machining at the right of the body for the Trials cut off.

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I built my clone in the late 1980's using an early good quality Entreprise Arms receiver and new Australian barrel. The only Canadian parts that were unobtainable. I had six of the C1 sniper scopes...

They did early on Rog. I have two ROFM 1941 in pretty much factory original condition with walnut. I also have '42 date in the same condition and it's in beech.

The woodwork looks honest and correct to me. ROF Maltby used many different British contractors for both wood and metal parts. You'll find them with Savage metal parts installed too mid to late war....

The late, great Hook Boutin told me that he liked to fill them with Devcon during the NM/M21 bedding process for added strength. In military service, they will crack from the selector relief cut to...

You must be thinking C No.7Mk.1 Jim as all the British No.7Mk.1 and No.9Mk.1 rifles have bayonet lugs. Canadian rifles don't have them.

BS1749
BS2182

Both solid barrels.