L42 broken up?

[Simon]

I don't know if the last pic is a page of a values guide book of some description or not but it would appear that the use of the 6x Schmidt on the L42 has moved from fiction to fact?????

Well it must be true if its in black and white, surely?

[chosenman]

Sad, very, very, very sad.

[ssj]

So they can be exported from the US to NZ? I know I can this end no problem as its a bolt action. The problem if any is the US side, I tried to bring in a Savage palma rifle and couldnt due to the US regs.

[Cold_Zero]

Looks to me like the rear pad has been off before and the holes slightly countersunk, maybe to clean up the punch marks or ......, well, who knows. The rear pads didn't work loose very often. The bolt is a very late one that usually found their was into the later spares stockpile, with the CROWN/RSAF logo near to the 19T proof load mark.

Peter - when bolts were replaced, were there any significant accuracy or consistency changes noted occasionally? If the bolt was dimensionally very close and materials consistent one would be inclined to think the rifle would not know the difference.

[Peter Laidler]

We only fitted a new bolt or bolt head when there was something wrong of course so by definition, something will have improved - but not necessarily the accuracy. The only difference I noticed was when the bolt face wasn't square with the chamber. There was a quick test we used for that. .

[Surpmil]

Divorce sale? I've seen sets of china split 50/50 before now, and for no other reason than spite.

[longebow]

Well, it looks like GE Fulton won this one.

I sent this to the ebayer who sold the L1A1 scope, but never got an answer back:

Dear g43crazy3puq,

Sir:

The collectors group on Milsurps found the matching L42A1 (serial number 36863) for the L1A1 scope that oxxxo just won from you. This rifle is currently listed on Gunbroker. Please forward this information to the winning bidder, so that he has the opportunity to reconnect this rifle with its matching scope/mount. Approximately 1080 L42A1s were converted from No4Ts, and approximately half were lost/destroyed. A matching L42A1 is an important piece of sniping history that should be preserved. Thank you for your understanding and assistance.

v/r

longebow

[Promo]

I know the seller of the telescope, have purchased parts from him before. He sells out the part which doesn't belong to his collection, he wants to concentrate only on German WWII stuff.

[DanL96a1]

Longbow I think that you are correct to try and save this L42 from being split up, and if it is!! Then allowing both buyers to try and reunite them together as it would be a smae to loose them. I would agree that the L42’s are a unique bit of sniping history. Just out of interested how do you know, that more than half of the L42’s have been destroyed or lost? Simon according to Ian Skenneton book British Sniper Rifles of the Empire L42A1 had L13A1 (green S&B’s) in the 1990’s I assume this is not true? Must admit never seen one in the flesh, only in the book.

[Promo]

I talked to the seller of the scope, he told me he had anyway been contacted by someone who had told him about the gunbroker auction. He then contacted the man who had purchased the scope from him.