no1 MkIII* sporter by PH

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Th OP's rifle looks like a completely standard Parker Hale No1 sporter - in fact there is an identical one on sale at the Bisley arms fair today.

The gun trade did make extensive use of DP-marked No1 receivers. Crates of them have come out of both PH and AJP; many of the receivers even white linished where knox form stamps have been removed, and with other receivers reblued/blacked after cleaning up. Evidently these DP receivers had been gauged and considered suitable for re-use.

The No1 barrel seems to shoot ok in a sportered rifle. Apart from PH/AJP sporters, there are zillions of sportered No1s in Australia and South Africa. Most seem to eliminate even the barrel band, so the barrel is either free-floated or completely flat bedded in the forend.

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