Thank you very much, that confirms a lot of my thoughts. I’m just waiting to hear back when I can give it a visit. From memory it is a 0C#### Mk1, has a 5 groove English barrel, an S51 stamp and some numbers on butt (maybe scope maybe s/n). The receiver side wall appeared to have been meanly ground during the application of the pads, and then re finished. Scope was I think a 1/2.
So this is from 30s in hand just over a year ago, so we will see.
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I tried to explain to a friend why I was frantically reading up on savage (t)s and got this for my pains
“You say your Long Branch mk1*(t) clone shoots very well, so why do you need an expensive original that will probably group less well and has mk1 scope?”
It’s comments like this that can make one question why some ‘friends’ are friends!