L42 broken up?

[Cold_Zero]

Can't say for sure, the rifle appeared within days of the scope being sold off.

Enfield NO4T Sniper Scope No 32 L1A1 w Can | eBay


Enfield Sniper L42A1 308 7.62x51 No 4 Rare L42 : Bolt Action Rifles at GunBroker.com

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[Gil Boyd]

Yes well thats what the wrist number tends to bear out, sad to see them parted
Gil

[Roger Payne]

Peter, what do you think about the rear body pad? With the enlarged countersinks it almost looks like a Long Branch 4T/L42. Suggests the pad has been off at some time. Never seen a BSA rifle with a rear pad like that before......

ATB

[longebow]

The scope mount clearly has No 36863 as well. Sad to see this rifle parted out like that. Hopefully the winning bidder for the scope/mount/tin will see this thread to know that the rifle is also for sale. ebay does not show the name/contact information for the winning bidders, so we are not able to notify him directly...

[Peter Laidler]

Looks to me like the rear pad has been off before and the holes slightly countersunk, maybe to clean up the punch marks or ......, well, who knows. The rear pads didn't work loose very often. The bolt is a very late one that usually found their was into the later spares stockpile, with the CROWN/RSAF logo near to the 19T proof load mark.

[Cold_Zero]

Looks to me like the rear pad has been off before and the holes slightly countersunk, maybe to clean up the punch marks or ......, well, who knows. The rear pads didn't work loose very often. The bolt is a very late one that usually found their was into the later spares stockpile, with the CROWN/RSAF logo near to the 19T proof load mark.

Peter - when bolts were replaced, were there any significant accuracy or consistency changes noted occasionally? If the bolt was dimensionally very close and materials consistent one would be inclined to think the rifle would not know the difference.

[stencollector]

The rifle was sold out of Savannah Tennessee, while the scope was sold out of Chattanooga. They are just 220 miles apart, so there has to be a story there somewhere.

Property like these are of course the seller's to do with as they wish. If the best return is to break up the kit, then that is unfortunately what a seller will do. Thankfully most no4Ts are worth more these days matching than they are as a sum of their parts, so they are not being broken up as often. Perhaps it is because the US market is still slightly depressed, that a seller would lean towards getting the ancillaries onto the world wide market of ebay while being stuck with having to throw the rifle onto the US market.

As evidence of the US market's depression, how many quality pieces (ie LB sniper outfits) have we seen heading back to Canada in the last while, even with the import fees, taxes, exchange rates, shipping costs etc?

The buyer of the scope from e-bay looks like a fairly serious player in the milsurp game when you look at his history.

Sporting Goods > Accessories 1 Seller 1 23h
Collectables > World War I (1914-1918) 1 Seller 2 2d 7h
Collectibles > WW II (1939-45) 2 Seller 3 7h
Sporting Goods > Sights & Scopes 4 Seller 4 <1h
Collectables > World War II (1939-1945) 1 Seller 5 6d 6h
Collectables > World War I (1914-1918) 3 Seller 6 2h
Collectables > World War II (1939-1945) 3 Seller 7 7h
Collectables > 1946-1960 6 Seller 8 <1h
Sporting Goods > Sights & Scopes 4 Seller 9 21h

It would appear he has won every item he has bid on in the last while. Hopefully he is enthusiastic enough to be checking all the auction sites and gun forums for related items.

[XL39E1]

Can these L42A1 rifles still be sent out from the US?

[superbee]

Yes,you can export a 7.62 L-42.I know of 3 that have been imported to Canada from the USA in the last 6 months

[chosenman]

Can these L42A1 rifles still be sent out from the US?

you should know, you've just bought one in a US auction???????