Lucky No. 5

[finloq]

Sometime you just get lucky. $225 shipped. Still has a remnant of the original black paint, BNP stamps, Faz stamps, Broad Arrow stamps, fore end has the nose cap, no sign of Ishapore FTR, pre-1968 'ENGLAND' import mark. Receiver/bolt/wood all match.

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[paulseamus]

How do you convey envy on a brown background!!!!

[Gingercat]

Very nice!

I picked up my all matching, 3/46 dated one a couple weekends ago. Interestingly, the left side of the 'L' butt on mine is stamped in large font 5/46. So perhaps the rifles weren't necessarily finished as dated on the receiver (or mine has a replacement butt).

The forend on mine is the more common, rounded off wood version.

All the best,

Mike

[Son]

finloc- a great deal in any language! Congrats! Next task, a range report?

Gingercat... I'd think yours had a long butt fitted in service to suit the operator as they all would have left the factory as standard. Maybe Peter can shed light on this?

[finloq]

Going to celebrate my nation's independence on July 4th, by putting some English holes in American paper tommorrow. I will let you know how she does. I stripped her and gave her a healthy drink of BLO yesterday. checked the bedding, free floating barrel (foreward of the knox form), good lands and no pitting in the barrel; she should shoot better than me.

[finloq]

Going to celebrate my nation's independence on July 4th, by putting some English holes in American paper tommorrow. I will let you know how she does. I stripped her and gave her a healthy drink of BLO yesterday. checked the bedding, free floating barrel (foreward of the knox form), good lands and no pitting in the barrel; she should shoot better than me.

And she does; about 2" groupings at 100 yards with Prvi Partizan 180gr. BT. I will try her next time with some handloads using flat base bullets.