Sad day at the auction

[John Sukey (Deceased)]

Then there was the NZ carbine I "rescued" from the local pawn shop. Bubba had taken a hacksaw to the forend,then thrown away the handguard and nosecap. Got it restored by a fellow in Canada, BUT I had to send him the timber from my other NZ carbine so he could copy it. If the postoffice had lost that I would have had TWO unrestorable carbines.. (They only made 1500)
Then there was the other chop job I bought localy, A No4 that I almost passed on UNTIL I saw the date (1931) That was a lot easier to restore, but since it was a "T" it took a year to find a No32Mk1 scope, and then find an excellent repo mount from the U.K. plus a scope tin