Help Identify this Number 4 Mk. 2

[Surpmil]

Aha, PBS gets the blame around here too, least for Pythonisms, but that day is done. The later stuff just doesn't ring true to me, or if it does, who wants to know?

Kentucky I thought was Scots-Irish territory, but I see on looking it was over 50% English; speaking of which you must have enjoyed "The Story of English" on PBS.

Alright "back to the gun" if we must.

Yes, a Mk2 is easy to spot from the cross bolt rather than the cross strap on the back of the forend.

I doubt the Pakistanis proofed anything, unless it was made at Pakistan Ordnance Factories (where all the Fazackerly machinery reportedly went)

The mixture of makers means nothing; as Peter Laidler has said many times, whatever parts met spec and fitted were used once in service.

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[Alan de Enfield]

I doubt the Pakistanis proofed anything, unless it was made at Pakistan Ordnance Factories (where all the Fazackerly machinery reportedly went)

From an old post of Peter's :

"It came from BSA. They were required to retain and maintain the old No4 manufacturing capacity on a care and maintenance basis for 10 years after the last rifle production - so in 1955 it was sold on".

I suggested to David that it was 'originally' a Fazakerley and your confirmation that it is a No4 Mk2, rather than a No4 Mk1/2 it confirms its parentage.

If it is a Mk2 then it would be an early 50's rifle (but the serial number does not stack up with that date) and it must have had a very hard life to require an FTR in '53

Fazakerley
BSA (FTR in 1953)
Sold to India and scrubbed & new number during re-fit to make it a grenade rifle, eventually sold out of service
Arrived in the USA