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    Feel Like being ill? Then see this...what do people think?

    Hi All,

    Been awhile....

    This came into a local shop the other day.....they called me...and I am NO EXPERT...but see what some knucklehead did.... I guess they though the glass bedding was a good idea...

    It seems someone took a T rifle and made it into a deer rifle....look a the pics....am I right?

    What didnt show up in the pics is the pad holes for the scope mount at the front part of the receiver...they were plugged....









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    Nothing that can't be repaired.

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    by the looks of it the work was done in the 60's and back then it was just a cheap deer rifle. there were alot of those on the market that never came with a scope

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    Sad.

    Looks like the original holes for the screws pad on the rear pad were plugged and then someone decided to drill some new

    Have the screw holes been filled with weld, or are they just ground off screws.

    Much easier to restore if they are ground off screws.

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    The only original part you're left to re-start with is a butchered and linished body. Everything else is scrap - or crap, depending on your point of view. Even if you resurrected the original holes (and if they're welded up, don't even bother trying is my opinion.......) there's only the remotest chance in hell that the repop pad holes will align correctly.

    If it was me, I'd use that serial number on another BSA 194X barrelled action, then start again to make a clone. At least you know how to do it properly if you follow the bible. Then bead blast, phosphate and paint. Then, at least, if a book of No4 serial numbers ever surfaces, it'll be 'original'.

    Just my 2c's worth

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    Fugly! But not entirely beyond redemption.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter Laidlericon View Post
    I'd use that serial number on another BSA 194X barrelled action, then start again to make a clone

    Just don't do it in the US! ATF takes a very dim view of reassigning S/Ns. The "ye olde" 10 years and $250,000 sort of view.

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    I hear what you're saying JM and Surpmil but if the screw holes are welded up, then from the engineering point of view, I'd say that it was beyond redemption. Once your tap breaks into original threads through and into dissimilar unknown hardnesses and all that.......... If another was cloned and the original destroyed then the evidence is destroyed along with it..... no? Naughty, yes but you could call it a true victimless 'crime'. As I said, just my 2c's worth while thinking on my feet

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    OK, saved it, processed it, repaired a few pixels and fiddled in general.
    The best I can make out from a bad picture, is that they are cut off screws reground.
    Changing the colour temp shows them as still being fractionally proud of the parent surface.

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    The mounting points for the service rearsight has been ground down as well, it is what it is now, move on.

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