ISO:No4 Mk1 Blueprints

[Bruce_in_Oz]

The entire rifle?

No.

Some parts?

Yes.

I know that "retro' is big, and I was involved in a "sort-of" retro-update thing with the now-demised AIA M-10 caper, starting nearly two decades ago, but I doubt there is much of a market for "new" No.4 rifles, especially given what it would cost to tool up to make them. Commercial accounting is not the same as "government" accounting. For a start, governments are not known for paying their "shareholders" generous dividends in the unlikely event that their spending of other people's money turns an actual profit.

The "economies of scale", both in production and the market, lead to the eye-watering prices asked for reproduction parts, including woodwork. Anyone wanting history, in the form of a complete No.4, will hunt down the real thing and maybe replace a few "rough" minor parts, or maybe spend the equivalent cost of the entire "pre-loved" rifle to purchase and fit a new-made barrel.

Everyone else will shop for a cheaper, mechanically sound, more recent design, (even though most "front-lockers" are derived from the 1898 Mauser to greater or lesser degree).

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[mp44collector]

I am looking for the complete set but a Barrel drawing and bolt head for the No4 Mk1 are first on the list. fee free to send me any you have indmech@hotmail.com Thanks