RFI made No. 4 T sniper

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Since I anyway had made some pictures of the Indian No. 4 T sniper I had kept, I thought it would be a good chance to also give a picture reference of what is often unknown and even more often unseen.

These rifles were made on scrubbed British receivers (for what I‘ve been told), were newly marked on the right side of the receiver ring. They were produced in an own serial number block with all snipers having an A prefix (probably some also made it into the B block, but I doubt it), and also all having a T suffix to the serial too. Most possibly this T suffix means Telescope.

These rifles made it into Europe through an importer in Belgium, at least this would be suggested by the Belgian firing proof visible on the receiver and the barrel.

My rifle has matching numbers on it, plus the scope mount was serialized to the rifle and the stock was serialized to the scope. I have no clue if this was Indian made or by someone else later to resemble the „British style“, but at least it doesn‘t look to be recently done.

While the stock doesn‘t bear the „S51“ marking on bottom, it is serialized at the very front and bears a small inspector (?) marking in front of the magazine guard.

Looking forward to any comments and would be curious to find out what others have observed with these Indian rifles.

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