While not a a militray no4 stock (I assume) Im left wondering.

[Thunderbox]

if we included other rifles from that era I,d say 98%.......

Going off thread slightly, today at Bisley I popped down to the zero range to check a tatty old P14 tgt rifle I'd picked up at auction - I paid more or less for the TZ 4/47 sight attached to it. Along with the T4s, no-one has taken an interest in it at the arms fair today.


First surprise: far from being shot out, it printed two nice tight raspberries, spot on the 200 and 600 yard sight settings. The ammo was 1969 RG! The bloke next to me was using a top end tgt rifle, RWS ammo - and had a zero target looking like a shotgun had fired BB at it...


Second surprise: some old boy also down at the range said "I made the stock for that rifle" (my P14). I'm ashamed I missed his name, but turns out he was the chap who produced stocks for Fultons and many of the other gunmakers. Looking at my rifle, he pointed out the detailing on the cheekpiece and thumb rest, and said that this was one of his early stocks - "before 1965"! Blimey, Bisley certainly is a small world, when you can turn up with a random 50-year old rifle and some bloke says, "oh, I made that one"...


So, 50-year old target rifle firing 45-year old ammunition puts up a decent showing against someone using a £5k rifle and current RWS target ammo...

[gsimmons]

Wot, no piccies?

[Peter Laidler]

That old ammo being as good as it is is no suprise to me TBox. We were using a load of belted RG69 from stocks returned from BRA (on the boxes which is Germany so they tell me) that had been relegated to training stocks a few years ago and I used some in my L42 just because I could really. It was perfect! Stored correctly it'll remain good

[Robert303]

Re No 21 Thunderbox post. I saw the rifle and Zero card when at Bisley both were very impressive.

[bigduke6]

So, 50-year old target rifle firing 45-year old ammunition puts up a decent showing against someone using a £5k rifle and current RWS target ammo...

It proves the old saying "Plenty a good tune played on an old fiddle"

[Peter Laidler]

Exactly........... As I told my 21 year old female 'companion' several times yesterday...., and the day before that and that and ..................... She's just gone home for a rest!