While not a a militray no4 stock (I assume) Im left wondering.

[bigduke6]

Actually, they're pretty good target rifles - probably easily good enough for the 90% of shooters who'd struggle to get better scores with an expensive modern TR rifle.....

I was going to mention your name TB in post #13, as someone who probably had a few etc. As for the above statement if we included other rifles from that era I,d say 98%.......

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[Thunderbox]

if we included other rifles from that era I,d say 98%.......

Going off thread slightly, today at Bisley I popped down to the zero range to check a tatty old P14 tgt rifle I'd picked up at auction - I paid more or less for the TZ 4/47 sight attached to it. Along with the T4s, no-one has taken an interest in it at the arms fair today.


First surprise: far from being shot out, it printed two nice tight raspberries, spot on the 200 and 600 yard sight settings. The ammo was 1969 RG! The bloke next to me was using a top end tgt rifle, RWS ammo - and had a zero target looking like a shotgun had fired BB at it...


Second surprise: some old boy also down at the range said "I made the stock for that rifle" (my P14). I'm ashamed I missed his name, but turns out he was the chap who produced stocks for Fultons and many of the other gunmakers. Looking at my rifle, he pointed out the detailing on the cheekpiece and thumb rest, and said that this was one of his early stocks - "before 1965"! Blimey, Bisley certainly is a small world, when you can turn up with a random 50-year old rifle and some bloke says, "oh, I made that one"...


So, 50-year old target rifle firing 45-year old ammunition puts up a decent showing against someone using a £5k rifle and current RWS target ammo...

[bigduke6]

So, 50-year old target rifle firing 45-year old ammunition puts up a decent showing against someone using a £5k rifle and current RWS target ammo...

It proves the old saying "Plenty a good tune played on an old fiddle"