Another "treacle rifle" - FTR No.1MKIII*

[Frederick303]

Not trying to be secretive, but based on a data base of sampled rifles it seems to have a feature I have seen exclusively on 1938 re-barreled Irish rifles. I have 78 rifles sampled out of approximately 31,169~31,669 SMLE MK III/II* rifles that were sold between 1961 and 1987, I have only a 0.246 % sample of the rifles. Of course when this feature appeared is not for sure, so there might be some 1937 re-barreled guns with this feature, I simply do not have enough rifles in my sample size to say.

There has been a lot of “conventional knowledge” put out on Irish rifles that has been in error, indeed on some very basic points there is still debate. In order to be more precise I would need to have written verification on some observed data. I do not want to put out information that is incorrect, but once I have all the data verified I am sure I will post the results here or on Gunboards (under the name Fritz)

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