Buy the rifle not the story!!!!!

[Peter Laidler]

Heavens above Roger........... Rebuilding rifles is what we used to do on an almost industrial scale at our major workshops. Some of the ORP's (the Ordnance Repair Programmes) were just that, with hundreds going through at any one time. There was just such a programme with the last L42's after the L96's had started to trickle into service. Some of the tyre kickers looking for factory original - whatever that really is - ought to get out a bit more. Imagine the dispair when I read time and time again of a bolt that is 'not original' because I can see the remnains of another number underneath the ' matching' number.......... I mean....... It's like the oft mentioned saga of butt patching

Back to my darkened room...........