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Skeleton Action
I picked this up at the Pheonix Show. The label shows 63rd Surrey which in the Last War was Home Guard, would they have had a Skeleton Action No4 Mk1?
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06-10-2011 10:08 AM
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The home guard was veteran guard. They would have used the #1 Mk3 in THEIR war so the #4 would have been instructed to them as a new rifle. Also their were others involved who had missed the first war. I remember pics of a clergyman who was taking training along side of the others. My own grandfather was too young to draft in WW1 so he was overage for WW2. He would have been prime for this role. He would need full training with a piece like this.
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Just out of interest (and to link it to a thread I started some time ago) was this sold as a Section 1 (live) firearm or as a 'non-firearm' ?
Mine are not the best, but they are not too bad. I can think of lots of Enfields I'd rather have but instead of constantly striving for more, sometimes it's good to be satisfied with what one has...
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Very nice skeleton action, congratulations.
I am looking also for one but the problem is how to bring it back home for instance from War and Peace show in Beltring, when going by plane back to Austria
. It is not a weapon in austrian law.
Pack it in the suitcase???
How did you manage to import it from the Phoenix show in the US to the UK?
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The final incarnation of the Home Guard was created by the Home Guard Act 1950. It's members were armed with No.4 rifles. The 63rd (Home Guard) Btn, The East Surrey Regiment was raised in 1952 and disbanded in 1958. Few people were prepared to donate their time to the Home Guard in peacetime when they could see little justification for it.
The 63rd Home Guard Surrey Rifle Club was one of many clubs set up in 1944 out of ex-Home Guard members. Some still exist.
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Frank LE. The answer to your predicament is to not fly here but drive here and back again. Easy!
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Originally Posted by
Frank LE
Very nice skeleton action, congratulations.
I am looking also for one but the problem is how to bring it back home for instance from War and Peace show in Beltring, when going by plane back to
Austria. It is not a weapon in austrian law.
Pack it in the suitcase???
How did you manage to import it from the Phoenix show in the US to the
UK?
I think the "Phoenix" show in question is the one held at Bisley in the UK not the States. 
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Just to clear up some queries, it was sold as a de-activated firearm complete with certificate, the Phoenix show was in Bisley England, I flew over for the day and had the weapon posted to me hence the delay of almost two weeks before posting this report. Thanks MK VII most interesting.
Last edited by 8udr; 06-11-2011 at 03:34 AM.
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Originally Posted by
8udr
Just to clear up some queries, it was sold as a de-activated firearm complete with certificate, the Phoenix show was in Bisley
England, I flew over for the day and had the weapon posted to me hence the delay of almost two weeks before posting this report. Thanks MK VII most interesting.
Was it the one on the Veranda?
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Originally Posted by
Beerhunter
Was it the one on the Veranda?
Bill Phelps
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