Billya: Looks like a nice rifle. The W in the serial indicates it's a Winchester, as you're probably aware. Like most it was upgraded to "Weedon Standard" prior to or during WW2 which included removal of volley sights, brass butt disk, etc. My own Winchester (serial quite close to yours) ended up in an Eddystone stock. You may be very pleasantly surprised how well it may shoot with that nice aperture sight installed. I hadn't heard of packing under the nosecap as an accurizing trick and maybe someone can elaborate? As built, they were suppposed to have a few pounds of up-pressure at the forend tip (rest of barrel floating) and the barrel was free to move up in the nosecap during firing. Let us know how it shoots.

Ridolpho
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