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Sorry missed the mm on the end. Should have said 7.9mm.
Birmingham proof house don't accept the B.S.A. B.M. Crown proof mark as a valid. I discovered this when a order came in for a quantity of commercial B.S.A SMLE's a few years ago and I checked with the proof house to see if it was valid and was told the proof mark was not. I had to submit them for re-proof before I could move them on. Sorry I've gone of topic..
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08-19-2014 08:22 AM
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You'#re still WELL on topic ZGB........... Not valid, proofed at Birmingham............. I'd be smelling a rat here as that indicates yet another little wheeze to get more stuff through the door. There is another total monopoly that needs looking into if you ask me...............
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I was told the birmingham-Military proof was a euphomistic term used by B.S.A to convince customers abroad that they were buying british military firearms and you'll have to submit them again. Ker-ching £££..
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It just seeeeeeems soooooooooo outrageous to the point of downright dishonesty or thorough deception to say something is proofed to a standard and then say that it's not! That's on the basis that proofing is like being pregnant. You are - or you're not! You can't be '.......a little bit pregnant' like being '.....nearly proofed..........
Maybe it's me. Now that I am older and have become more forensic in how I see things. When we were writing specialist instructions, like EMER's and the like, we had to eliminate ANY misunderstanding. Like saying '........ hold the piston post against a piece of hard wood held in the vice jaws. Now tap it hard with the front face of a rawhide mallet and it will come out.....' That was no good because someone would OR COULD say later or imply that the instruction said he should hit the vice or the vice jaws/clamps and THEY would come out..............
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