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Presumably the BW were working with a stock of new bolt heads? As your study of them showed, the used examples can vary so widely markings could not be relied on.

Tolerances are of course...

Good one; ' got caught up in the photos and forgot to search for the "No.564". :D So what I took to be the narrow and earlier bowl was actually the socket of the stem. Something more still to find...

The 16° and L42A1 comment was Peter's statement quoted by you elsewhere, and I therefore took it as the last word. ;)

Correction to my last: 16° max for run of the mill No.4s and as few degrees as possible for the L42A1. ;)

Fill yer boots - er, bowl here: Amsterdam Pipe Museum - Collection

Clearly a vast subject in itself, like so many other fields of collecting. It was an enjoyable rabbit hole for 10 minutes there!...

Not quite a sow's ear out of a silk purse, but headed in that general direction. :D

As Ian and others have pointed out, a straight-pull action is the only sensible place to start for a semi-auto...

It's amazing how large a segment of the population seems to lack this instinct or understanding, whichever it which it is, and whatever the visibility conditions are.

"Owners" is a funny choice of word.

I knew a gent who grew up on the north coast and whose childhood friend found some caps and invited him to come along for the festivities. For some reason he didn't go and his friend didn't come...

And the Vickers Wellington bomber as well:

Vickers Wellington - Wikipedia

It'll be easier to start with what engines your family may have owned in the past and look for a visual ID. That pattern number(?) probably doesn't cross reference to anything. If part...

It was Diemert who brought the Zero(s) back from S. E. Asia and restored one to flying condition.

"First Flight in 80 Years'? :rolleyes:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvbQMqd0kEY

He's...

A 3/4 scale Bren in 7.62x39 would be fun.

Death rates are rising steeply. Very sad, but as someone said about war and generals, health is too important to leave to the ______.

No one likes to consider the subject in all its implications,...

Some, perhaps the naval versions, had a wicker wrap to help protect against impacts.

The pattern or part number cast in is "K9502" or ??

As per my earlier posts, when you have an accepted and stated variation of 2 MOA, an "error" of 0.5 MOA does not appear to be significant, not to me anyway.



Do you mean an earlier Canadian...

Why in your opinion was a variation of 2 MOA at 100 yards mentioned in STL as acceptable and possible?

Would a similar variation be likely to exist in ammo used for this purpose in the British...

Buried with dozers after the dozers flattened them out wasn't it?

Lots of adjustments been made in the past. Hopefully the Chileans didn't do that kind of thing.

Well Rick, you're plainly vastly more qualified in this field than I, so we'll have to rely on you to solve the mystery, if there is one! ;) I'll see if I can locate a 1950s Canadian manual that may...

Don't recall which it was now, but based on your comments gentlemen, I would assume it was a Fazackerly.

That being the case, what do we know about their use of month dates?

Lance, can you comment on the occasional apparent month dates one seems stamped on some rifles? I saw a "5/1943" somewhere recently for example.

Congrats on the reunification. Interesting that Kershaw would be brought on line to manufacture the Mk.I scope as late as 1943.

Was one of the previous makers bombed out (W.Watson?), reassigned,...

Bottom line I'd say is that the statement of 8.5 inches, give or take two inches, is repeated at least three times in "Shoot to Live" so it cannot be a typo.

Lt. Col. Johnston knew his business...