Do I have a no1 Mk3 sniper? (Incomplete)

[Bruce_in_Oz]

If it were, in an earlier(late 1930s) life, a "range" rifle, the civvie owner may have succumbed to club voodoo and opened out the barrel hole in the original nosecap.

Officially replaced nosecaps should be "unmolested" and have the rifle number stamped on them, even if that meant grinding off/ striking out the old number.

Look on the underside of the fore-end. Just to the rear of the outer band (with the sling swivel), there should be a round wooden plug where the inner band screw would normally go. The "H" barrel is too fat to accommodate the inner band AND the "H" barrel also had quite different vibration characteristics, so the band and its screw and spring were deleted and the hole in the fore-end plugged.

There have been murmurings about reproduction mounts and scopes (P-18 -Aust) being made, but nothing substantial has arrived in my mailbox, yet. The fitting and collimation of the scope is NOT a task for the faint-hearted or mechanically challenged.

Your rifle may have NEVER had a scope fitted. WW2 ended with the project just getting into its stride, and that was that. Snipers with the first Australian Infantry battalions sent to the 1960s "South East Asian War Games", were still issued with these rifles. No ammo in country, rifles boxed up and sent home.

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