Parker Hale M85 Serial Number Checks & Provenance on Manufacture (Records)

[southwell]

Hi mate,

here we go, a reasonable amount of information on this one...

AVON & SOMERSET POLICE
GREEN NATO
18.6MM GROUP @100 YARDS 10 ROUNDS
SWAROVSKI 6 X 42 SCOPE FITTED S/N A5726005
MUZZLE THREADS
27TH MARCH 1990
00398F

Hope that helps...

Amazing thank you so much. The scope and barrel currently on it aren’t original then. Sadly no transit case either.

Is there not a ban on releasing ex-police firearms to the public? So would these ex-police M85s have been released before then, similar to the ex-Bedfordshire and ex-Durham AI PM rifles? This particular M85 isn’t even in the UK at the moment but I’m arranging for it to be brought back.