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    Pics of my Lithgow No1 MkIII H.T. Sniper

    Greetings All,
    I purchased this low mount (I believe its technically called a medium mount)rifle (sn#70657) and submitted my paperwork on 1 Sept 2001. It took 8-9 months to receive it from Australiaicon but I'm glad I did it. It is one of the jewels in my collection. The rifle/scope is matching and complete. I didn't have time between the deployments over the past years to fire it and am hoping to one day to see what she can do. That will have to wait until I get back to the US though.

    The chest is not an original item but I had a friend build it for me. The transit chest needed to be slightly longer in order to accomadate a No1 Mk III properly. The rifle just looked "naked" without one and I had the crate stenciled with what I thought would be appropriate nomenclature (if it existed)








    Best Regards,
    Michael
    Last edited by FlightRN; 12-25-2021 at 05:08 PM.

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    Thankyou for re-aquainting me and the guys here with your rifle, Michael. I believe to this day it's definately one of the five best Lithgowicon HT's I've ever seen....

    When you do get to fire it, don't forget to take more pics. We love range reports here too!

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    Found rifle No 42951 welded up tighter than a drum. Army museum W.A.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bindi2 View Post
    Found rifle No 42951 welded up tighter than a drum. Army museum W.A.
    Thankyou, Bindi. I'm afraid that every one you see in a Military Museum on permanent display will be welded up solid. There's a couple at Bandianna too, not sure how many here were done...

    Is there anything else you can tell me about it? Highmount (should be) cheekpiece? nosecap ears mod?... I'm assuming it was behind glass- not easy to get details off.
    I've added it to the survey.

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    Lithgowicon Mk111, high mount, no cheekpiece, sorry that is all too many tears.

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    original or not?

    I have a N#1 mk111 sniper i purchased off Simon Lawrence in Sydney some years ago for what would seem a pittance now,
    here is the info on said rifle.
    1.it has twonumbers on the reciever
    at the small of the bolt end is D4448
    at the breech end B2326
    2.Lithgowicon 1922
    3.unknown
    4.MA 2/45
    5. L
    6.Not original was a replacement barrel that i bought later but was an original lithgow manufacture heavy.
    7.30420
    8.cant see it?
    9.1410
    10.cant see any
    11.low
    12.not modified
    13.no
    14.no
    15. yes
    16.has early windage sights fitted, and i had the scope re built in canberra by a bloke who does alsorts of scope rebuilding, it is now crystal clear with no fungus growing inside of it.

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    Thankyou, fergs and welcome to milsurps.com.
    You would be right about the price you paid compared to what they are pulling now. If we only knew then what we know now....

    I'll get your rifle's details input into my spreadsheet over the next couple of days and give you a rundown on any information I can get from the details and cross referencing them. In the meantime, is there anything you need to know?
    Have a good look around this site and visit the Knowledge Libraryicon for good information on just about anything milsurp. Great bunch of people here, just join in and enjoy.

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    thanks for the heads up, have been looking around already only figured out how to finally activate my acount yesterday. Have already posted some questions on a no4 that is in 7.62 look forward to many questions on my collection to be answered in the future. But for now i will enjoy the site.
    Regards
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    Quote Originally Posted by fergs View Post
    thanks for the heads up, have been looking around already only figured out how to finally activate my acount yesterday. Have already posted some questions on a no4 that is in 7.62 look forward to many questions on my collection to be answered in the future. But for now i will enjoy the site.
    Regards
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    here are some pics of the beastie to enjoy.

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    I'd just like to point out to all you H.T Owners how cruel it is to post pistures in front of us who dont own one..

    Ill need therapy now!

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