Picked up two No1MkIII rifles today!

**Hal O'Peridol** · 05-07-2010 05:16 AM

Happy Dance™ time!

Stopped by a gunsmith friend of mine today, he was opening up a safe in which he had stashed rifles several years ago. Pulled out 2 NICE Japanese icon

rifles, a Type 38 and a Type 99, a Destroyer carbine, a NoIVMk2 and a bunch of Enfields. He got them back when they were well under a hundred dollars. I snaged two of them for myself, a very nice Siamese BSA contract "Smiling Tiger" rifle

and a SSA marked "peddled scheme" rifle that still had the windage adjustable rear sight.

Without further ado, here they are......

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**Son** · 05-07-2010 06:04 AM

The old "in the right place at the right time" trick. You gotta love the luck!

Congrats- two good honest looking rifles!

**MVolkJ** · 05-07-2010 09:15 AM

Very nice - the Siamese rifles are tough to find!

The windage-adjustable rear sight is not original to that rifle.

-Mark

**Hal O'Peridol** · 05-07-2010 03:39 PM

Originally Posted by MVolkJ

Very nice - the Siamese rifles are tough to find!

The windage-adjustable rear sight is not original to that rifle.

-Mark

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May not be original to the rifle, but the leaf is arsenal renumbered to the rifle, so about as correct as it gets.

**Son** · 05-07-2010 05:49 PM

Originally Posted by Hal O'Peridol

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May not be original to the rifle, but the leaf is arsenal renumbered to the rifle, so about as correct as it gets.

That's not an uncommon find. Parts were re-used everywhere. The only way to be sure it wasn't fitted from new would be if the font was different. But then it could have been done at any time in service since...

Here's a sight with almost as many lives as a cat!

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