Boys AT rifle

[boltaction]

Hi all:
Has anyone seen a Boys for sale in the last while? I was going to buy one a couple of years ago but it sold before I could get to it. Any idea of current values? I would like to find an Inglis of course, but a BSA would be fine too!

Ed

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[Brit plumber]

Gun Broker has a few for sale.

[boltaction]

Right! Sorry, I should have clarified--Gunbroker indeed has a couple, one an Inglis and one a Brith, the latter with Finnish acceptance marks which is neat. However, I am in Canada, so can't import them, or more accurately wouldn't be able to get them exported out of the US. I was looking for one in Canada.

Ed

[stencollector]

Any of them that I have seen in Canada lately have sold in the $8,000 to $10,000 range. They do not come up often, but of the maybe half dozen that I have noted, that would seem to be the trend. The last one was an Inglis, and it was in the upper range of those prices. It was also US property marked, which I suspect could hurt the value a little here in Canada.

There were also a couple sold with issues like bad barrel or partially deactivated. Even those were in the $6K range.

All this makes me glad I bought mine a decade or so back for around $3K-4K, and managed to import it from the US just before that door closed.

[Brit plumber]

Theres one in the UK for £15000 so I'm glad I got mine when I did.

[Peter Laidler]

The US PROPERTY marking on Canadian/Inglis made Boys was a condition of the Lend Lease thing. I know that it might at first seem a paradox, but the fact(?) was that the special and full qwuantity of the steel for this particular programme was from Bethlehem (is that correct/same as baby Jesus spelling?) Steel in the US and as such, that was part of the condition

[stencollector]

I have never seen a Inglis Boys that did not have the US property mark, but I have only seen a few dozen at most. I asked the question before, and Warren Wheatfield stated that he had seen them without the "US Property". The story up to now has always been that the US Marines adopted a number of these rifles, which would have explained the mark. There is just so little available information on these rifles.....when are you publishing that factual pamphlet Peter?

[Peter Laidler]

The Boys book......... Yet another here all but ready. It's easy writing books, it's getting them published that's the soul destroying part, believe me........ Re the US Marines question. My understanding is that theirs and their ammo came from Australian Army stocks while training in Australia. This would make perfect sense as they were there training in Aust prior to a lot of their campaigns when the rifles were identified pictorially. To be perfectly honest and having lived in that jungle environment for a while, a Boys rifle ain't the sort of thing you'd want to use. If you've got to move fast, you won't be carrying a Boys, believe me!

[Brian Dick]

Bethlehem Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

[Peter Laidler]

Thanks for that bit of info Brian, that all makes sense now as the info I got in our library didn't elaborate on that. Here's me thinking that the steel came from Israel..... Just joking!!!!!