New Look at Mark 4 #1* [T] After Reading "An Armourer's Perspective"

[Roger Payne]

Hi Entry Level. Your rifle is a perfectly good 1943 BSA Shirley T. The butt is a replacement of Savage manufacture & you will note the US ordnance acceptance 'flaming bomb' close to the S on the underside of the butt. The large S immediately in front of the butt plate indicates it is a short (rather than medium or long) butt.

I have also seen a few BSA 1943 rifles with what looks like speech marks after the receiver engraving. In fact I think I still have at least one. I'll go & look! To be honest I've never thought it had any particular significance & just thought maybe the guy setting up the engraver on that production run had an off-day! I think the same about the Mk1* marks on rifles that aren't. I think someone just goofed.................but I'd be interested to hear if anyone considers either of these variations indicate some subtle differences to the run of production......

Any chance of some more pix of your bracket, particularly of the other side, showing tha numbers & general details of the cradle caps. I'm curious....

Nice rifle.

ATB

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