Rifle No.7 .22 LR

[Buccaneer]

One thing I would say to all Members, The trouble with trying to bring stuff in under the counter is its not just the individual who gets the slap, the whole shooting and collecting community suffers as a result, as it provides more ammo for the anti gun gang thus giving us more bad press.

Enough said!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DaveN]

Thanks to all for the good intel. As I stated I will make sure everything is done to the letter of the law. Brian "BDL" Is the way I will go. I was kind of joking about the Mum inlaw?

Here is a bolt I received from a member so I could match it up. ( final fit to be Andys call)

I hope he will be shooting his rifle as soon as I can make it happen.

[Bearclaw]

Now I just have to find a No7. Well done.

[Peter Laidler]

THere seeems to be plenty of barrelled actions in the UK, found during the closure of BSA and the other small arms manufacturers. Missing the usual bits of course which should be available soon in any case.

The internal magazine interface plate is a one hit pressing/stamping so should be easy enough to manufacture and that just means finding the actual BSA magazines............ Mind you, if it were me doing the job, I'd just use a readily available current .22" magazine fixed into a standard No4 magazine until I found the real McCoy.

Have you given any thought to magazines yet DaveN?

[DaveN]

Peter, this was sent to me (on loan for non evasive research) by a member. Our Mag is hollow so I will let "the team" use this and the info here on the pages and what ever else I can get from this forum to hopefully help us with ours and also send this back in working order.
Dave

[DaveN]

We now have the ejector plate in our possession and hope to produce enough to complete the bolt heads we have. I can see why it isn't cheap. Andy says it will take about 28 separate operations to make one part. When he saw it he said he wasn't even close to what he thought it looked like. Glad we have this part in hand . Special thanks to Neil in south Florida !!

[Peter Laidler]

I know it's not my shout Dave but from the pure production engineering point of view, surely the ejector would be far simpler if it were a fabrication of the main, flat, drilled/countersunk plate with the ejector silver soldered in place.......no? There is no actual 'load' as such on the plate or ejector part if you don't count the actual ejection load which is barely measurable, even with the most ham-fisted user.

Brilliant project and top marks for the progress so far

And a Merry Xmas too - and may this project mean a prosperous new year to you and your team and families too

[DaveN]

I'll pass that on to Andy as we were planning on making it out of a solid block of what ever type of metal our example is, but my non engineering mind thought why is this ejector so elaborate when all it does is knock a 22cal casing out, wouldn't a simple rectangle post do the same thing? The great thing about this project is we are not talking 30 cal and high pressure here so we rest at ease on the safety part of said project. Thanks again Peter and all the best to you and yours this holiday season.

[Brit plumber]

I've just sold (Sunday) a BSA sportsman mag which I know can be converted to No.7 spec, wish I'd seen this thread first as I'd have offered it up.

[DaveN]

The story of my life. Thanks anyway Brit Plumber, I find all on milsurps are very helpful so your almost offer is still much appreciated. Our thought is there are alot of these mags out there ...... you know in a drawer or in a box on a shelf or in a closet or cupboard just waiting to be discovered.