Lithgow No1 MkIII* HT Sniper Rifle Survey

[Son]

Hello there Geoalex, and welcome to the forum. You'll find we have a multinational membership here all very helpful and happy to look at and chat about any pics you care to post. As luck would have it, I am only two hours down the road from you, mate. I do need to get back to Craig yet from his post above, but very happy to give you a complete rundown of your rifle and a brief history of the Lithgow snipers too.
Rifle No 28046 was completed and sent to store on 5/4/45, one of 12 finished that day. Thats about all I can tell you from the serial number, sadly.

To give you as complete info as possible I will need some information off your rifle. If you'd rather not post details here, I can email you the questions. I will not divulge any direct info you give in this way, or tell anyoine the locations of specific rifles. I have details of over 200 rifles in my survey, so am well positioned to make comment.

Look forward to hearing from you again, mate.

Regards,
Brad.

[Geoalex]

Good afternoon Brad Thanks for your reply and info. Sorry for the delay. It would be easier for me to communicate by email as I have detailed pictures and have not found how to transmit on this site if that is ok for you. My email gho1107@bigpond.net.au Regards George.

[Son]

Good afternoon Brad Thanks for your reply and info. Sorry for the delay. It would be easier for me to communicate by email as I have detailed pictures and have not found how to transmit on this site if that is ok for you. My email gho1107@bigpond.net.au Regards George.

Hi George. Could you please check your email address, it is coming up rejected when I try to send to you..

Cheers,
Brad.

[Geoalex]

Hello Brad sorry email should be gho10107@bigpondet.au Cheers George

[Geoalex]

Hello Brad Still did not get email correct this is it. gho10107@bigpond.net.au Cheers George.

[Craig Eberhardt]

Hello Brad,

I have this rifle now. One thing I notice is that the rifle serial number on the scope is in a very distinctive font and appears to have been done by the same hand as the short bracket in the Knowledge Library entry.

I cannot see a serial number on the barrel although the number 4 appears on the left hand side of the Knox form and may continue under the front sight base. Were the barrels numbered to the rifle and if so where should I look?

There are numerous other stamps on the barrel including broad arrows and an interesting punch mark below the serial number. Any thoughts?

If you PM me your email address I would be only too happy to forward a series of photos for your consideration and (if you like) posting on this forum.

Craig

[Son]

Hi Craig. Again apologies for not getting back to you with your report on your rifle's details. I will get onto it.

In a lot of cases, the serial number on the barrel is almost totally obscured by the front scope base. They were not re numbered. There was a standing order that the HT rifles were not to be stripped with any other rifles on the bench so to ensure there would be no mixing of parts. To this end, the small parts were not required to be numbered, but a lot were. Barrel manufacture dates were usually close to the build date, but exceptions found are where H rifles or rifle club rifles handed in retained their barrels after passing gauging and accuracy testing. Have even seen a few matching foreends retained. The rest of the parts were gauged as well, and those that passed were stored and used in the assembly of completed HT's. One good example of this is a rifle with a nosecap serial number struck through (not matching) showing it had come off another rifle and hadn't been renumbered. The struck through number is also on the list of HT serial numbers, so it had come off one rifle at conversion and used on another.

Not sure about the punch mark under the serial on the barrel. Maybe a pic will give some clues.... Will PM my email to you,
Cheers,
Brad

[Craig Eberhardt]

Hello there,

Just noticed Pattern 1918 scope number1613 for rifle number 75809 advertised on Usedguns.com.au

Craig

[Craig Eberhardt]

Hello there,

Just noticed Pattern 1918 scope number1613 for rifle number 75809 advertised on Usedguns.com.au

Craig

Sold already

[Son]

Sold already

I rang up about that and they told me it had no number engraved on it!