Fulton Regulation

[Devils Own]

Hello Everybody

We obviously see a few rifles around that are regulated by Fulton. What does this specifically mean and entail?

Thanks

Steve

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[Thunderbox]

It merely means that the rifle has been through Fultons' shop, and does not imply any particular specification or work.

On a No1 or No4 target rifle it can mean that they ensured the action was correctly bedded, and/or used selected components to reduce tolerances to a minimum, and/or fitted a selected or improved barrel, etc.

It can also mean they charged someone to "improve" their rifle, but in fact left the rifle on the rack for a week or two before handing it back... (as told to me by a veteran of the Trade....).

[Mk VII]

If prepared for S.R.(b) rules it would mean quite a bit of bedding work was done, forend anchored to the action with self-tapping screws or grub screws, nosecap reamed out so that the barrel didn't touch it, maybe an extra half band over the front h/g to put pressure on it, match sight fitted and levelled, target swivel in place of the standard one ....

[No4Mk1(T)]

My 1948 Faz. No4Mk1 was “Regulated by Fulton” and is one of the best shooing No4’s I own. They defiantly did a lot of work on this one. They also did a lot of 7.62mm conversions as well.

Top rifle in photo:

[Devils Own]

Thanks for the info fellas.

Last year I bought a No4 MkI that had been converted to .410. It had been a regulated by Fulton rifle in the past. The wood looks bedded. I was just wondering if this would make it worthwhile to reconvert back to .303.

Steve

[Alan de Enfield]

Thanks for the info fellas.

Last year I bought a No4 MkI that had been converted to .410. It had been a regulated by Fulton rifle in the past. The wood looks bedded. I was just wondering if this would make it worthwhile to reconvert back to .303.

Steve

I guess it depends exactly what was done by Fultons - if the 'action' only was bedded then changing the barrel would not have any effect. If the barrel is changed and they had done bedding to the forend (to suit the old barrel) then you would be destroying the bedding and would have to re-do it with the new barrel.

Whilst I personally have no experience of Fultons work I have been warned by two 'experts' to look closely at the rifles they sell and the work they do.
Allegedly they have been seen to have sold a No4 T as original when it had been 'made up' by them and the numbers changed to suit.

[Dimitri]

It can also mean they charged someone to "improve" their rifle, but in fact left the rifle on the rack for a week or two before handing it back... (as told to me by a veteran of the Trade....).

Allegedly they have been seen to have sold a No4 T as original when it had been 'made up' by them and the numbers changed to suit.

They sound like scam artists.

Dimitri

[villiers]

Have just had a long discussion with a British gunsmith who once was employed by Fultons. He explained what “Regulated by Fultons “ actually meant … and he sent me a “regulated” No. 4 Mk 1 fore- end as proof.

To start with, the reinforcing tie plate is fixed with a screw and its recess at the rear is made absolutely flush by fixing a hardwood plug so that the fore-end exerts maximum surface pressure on the buttstock. The rear lugs have hardwood inserts and the barrel is bedded under the knoxform and also central bedded. Bedding at the front provides the necessary downward pressure. The best feature I found, was that a steel plate is inserted under the front of the trigger guard to strengthen the downward pressure of the trigger guard screw.

“Regulated by Fultons” is certainly not a myth. And a lot of extra work went into just this fore-end. A lot more went into work on the barrel, the sighting and the trigger.