Sniper mount steel question

[Roger Payne]

My late machinist Graham Smith made about thirty of the bases for the TP rifle around 25 years ago, or maybe a little more. He also produced three sets of rings. But then he was a savant, & he died in 2005, taking his machining secrets to the grave with him, the mounts all selling quickly, at the time. Graham made them as the late Pete Bloom turned up thirty TP scopes complete with rings from a European dealer - I think they were scopes from rifles that had ended up in either Belgium or Holland. I heard the authorities destroyed the rifles but released the scopes. Pete sold at least some of the scopes/rings & repro bases on 'that' internet auction site.

[Strangely Brown]

Graham made them as the late Pete Bloom turned up thirty TP scopes complete with rings from a European dealer - I think they were scopes from rifles that had ended up in either Belgium or Holland. I heard the authorities destroyed the rifles but released the scopes. Pete sold at least some of the scopes/rings & repro bases on 'that' internet auction site.

Pete turned up at "J" lines Bisley (circa 2000) during one of the first civilian service rifle competitions since they were stopped in the early 1970's, he had two very new looking No.5's with him which still had traces of cosmoline on.
I couldn't afford one at the time but often wondered where he picked these things up from.