BSA No.4 MKI (T) Restoration from cut-down sporter

[Peter Laidler]

I wonder if cut-down, butchered and commercialised L42's will ever fall into this 'cut down sporter' category in the future.

A distant friend of mine purchased a telescope-less bit-of-a-heap L42 several months ago that did have an original but bit-of-a-heap and badly fitting bracket bracket. He's also got a bracketless No4T fitted with a totally worn-out Mk1 scope fitted to a bad repop bracket. What I've suggested he do is this........

Properly fit the original bracket from the L42 to his real No4T and sensibly restore it and fit the clapped out but restorable Mk1 telescope. That makes one useable and original rifle.......
Fit a DRP bracket to the L42, restore that and use it with iron sights until he can find a cheapo(?) Mk2 or 3 telescope. After all, the DRP brackets were used on a quantity of needy War Stocks of L42's and ALL were fitted with converted telescopes in any case.
That way you will immediately start with one fully rebuilt and useable No4T with an ALMOST rebuilt but still useable L42. The sight will come later of course