Quote Originally Posted by Roger Payneicon View Post
There must be SA barrels from more than one source then. Many years ago Charnwood imported a load of them, all wax dipped, all with rear sight bases & all brand new (NOS) SA 1950's manufacture. When Charnwood ceased trading most or possibly even all of the barrels were bought by Terry Abrams. I managed to persuade Terry to let me have a few. I think he still has some, although last I heard he didn't have many left & so was reluctant to part with any more.
I'm a lucky lad, I managed to get Terry to rebarrel my MkIII* with one of those earlier in the year. Beautiful, shiny bore and very nicely blued on the outside. Terry told me they were barrels removed from brand new rifles when the SA Gov't disposed of their stocks of SMLE's.