An Armourer's Perspective: .303 No. 4 (T) Sniper Rifle and the H&H Connection

[stencollector]

I purchased a copy of this booklet about 15 years ago on a chance encounter at milarm in Edmonton. I think I may have paid $35 for it. Foolishly, I passed it on to someone else over the years. Reading this thread made me realize I needed a fresh copy. To my horror, the inflation on this book has become as incredible as anything else with the word sniper on it. Book sellers are commanding prices of around $300 for it, or worse. I finally found a copy from the UK at a more reasonable price, but once the exchange rate is factored along with postage, it came to around $85.

I hope you do print up another run of them Peter, and put all the scalpers in their place.

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[Lee Enfield]

I purchased a copy of this booklet about 15 years ago on a chance encounter at milarm in Edmonton. I think I may have paid $35 for it. Foolishly, I passed it on to someone else over the years. Reading this thread made me realize I needed a fresh copy. To my horror, the inflation on this book has become as incredible as anything else with the word sniper on it. Book sellers are commanding prices of around $300 for it, or worse. I finally found a copy from the UK at a more reasonable price, but once the exchange rate is factored along with postage, it came to around $85.
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I bought both of my "armourers perspective" copies at Milarm, the paperback copy which is full of oily fingerprints, and the hardbound copy I bought to replace it when the original was lent out and lost....luckily it found it's way back home eventually.

I got my copy of the "little scope booklet" from Pete Bloom....also lent out...no current idea as to whom, sadly not returned, and not yet replaced.

The mark of a good book is what percentage of the pages are oil smudged from comparing a physical example to the paper example....I've started to believe that one should purchase 2 copies of books which will be used in such circumstances...

speaking of book price "inflation", has anyone (other than myself) attempted to source a replacement copy of "The British Sniper"? Obviously I should have simply purchased 20-30 copies back in the 90s and just sat on them until now...I could probably pay off my mortgage with the procedes.