Sniper rifles of India

[Roger Payne]

The scopes are not quite all done yet......there's till about a dozen in my garage, including UIC Mk2 serial number 9! As has been said they all came in dire condition, but with enough TLC & Peter's input every one is/was restorable.
Can you feel a migraine coming on Peter?!?!?

ATB

[Peter Laidler]

Oh, no....., not more............ It's not a migraine I feel coming on...., it's suicide. Surely there's someone else out there.........

[tower06]

The scopes are not quite all done yet......there's till about a dozen in my garage, including UIC Mk2 serial number 9! As has been said they all came in dire condition, but with enough TLC & Peter's input every one is/was restorable.
Can you feel a migraine coming on Peter?!?!?

ATB

Where are the scopes going after refurb?

[limpetmine]

Here are some pictures of one, gleaned from the WWW.

[jmoore]

I like it. If there was a scope, it would be really nice. These rifles often spent long hours out in the worst weather, at "low altitude", so a pristine sniper rifle just never got fielded. Dreadful!

[Brian Dick]

I actually have a nice one; a 1944 BSA/H&H, complete with the screw through the forend and matching, (upgraded), Mk.3 scope. It's been center bedded and floated on the bearing at the front of the forend. All Indian mods as far as I know. It shoots well too.

[spinecracker]

Now do I have a reason to be jealous, Brian??? lol

I'm just glad these amazing weapons are being appreciated and saved from the evil clutches of Bubba....

[jmoore]

Or the ANTI-Bubba (sort-of): those who try and "improve" a servicable, albeit worn, honest rifle so that it is more "minty". Rescuing from Bubba is all well and good, but some folk want to rub the history from the weapon so that looks like it just came from the factory. Garands are particularly bad in this respect, much as I like 'em, they're now just parts flying in formation.

[spinecracker]

reblueing, sanding the stocks, removing the history...I like to see wear and dings (ok, not broken in half, but you get the idea...)

[Peter Laidler]

On the subject of staking the screws, then if there were a few stake marks in the metal - and this was quite common on well used No4T's, L42's and Browning .30 M1919 locking cramp screws - then we were encouraged to stake the SCREW HEAD into the old stake hole as opposed to stake the metal into the screw slot. This prolonged the life of the rifle on the basis that screws were cheap and plentiful.