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    BSA International MK3 lives again!

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    So, going back 30 years, both my wife and I shot .22 prone competition, me with my trusty model 54 and my wife with her International MK3.

    Debbie had a very impressive 98 avarage, I never got any better than 96.

    She just had the Lazer like concentration needed to maintain a consistent high score....

    Then I had a sudden conversation to Damascus, got bored of competition ( Debbie stopping shortly after as life tends to get in the way), sold the rifle and came home with my first Lee Enfield .... Never looked back and embracing all sorts of milsurps ever since....

    While my model 54 was happily sold on to someone who can probably do it more justice than I ever could, my wife wanted to keep her international, for old times sake.

    It's been stored for 25 years, quite frankly we both forgot all about it...

    Last year it had to be moved from its location, so I put it on my FAC....

    Deciding it was high time it was used for something, I spent yesterday refubishing it and adding a mint Tasco 708 scope, period correct.

    I added a butt pad to give me the correct eye relief on the short stock, a weaver rail underneath and I'm ready for a little relaxing bench rest shooting, 1960's style!
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    I've started shooting that way also, arthritis and short eyesight have made it so. That looks like a rifle that would do well... I use sandbags though, can't get along with the Harris bipods.
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    Quote Originally Posted by browningautorifleicon View Post
    I've started shooting that way also, arthritis and short eyesight have made it so. That looks like a rifle that would do well... I use sandbags though, can't get along with the Harris bipods.
    Hi Jim, yep, 'theoretically' it should still be a tack driver, this 57 year old MK3 with its floating barrel is just as accurate as anything else out there today, all those Uber expensive aluminium chassis, space age shooting rigs (that bore me to tears) ect...

    I'll be shooting from my shooting bag too, the weaver rail and bipod is purely so I can set the 15lb plus setup down without brushing the wood under its own weight!

    Still quite capable of sub Moa groups...

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    Quote Originally Posted by mrclark303 View Post
    quite capable of sub Moa
    I just invested in a CZ457 with 4-12x40 that does that. I did well, a $1500CDN deal for $1200CDN. I was surprised (somewhat) to successfully engage 2" gongs at 120yd. Just a bit of aim up involved.
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    Sounds very nice Jim, you'll have to post a pic at some point....

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    OK then, here's that... Expensive party was the three steel mags.
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    Smart looking rifle Jim.....

    One of the best things to about .22 LR of course is they are cheap to feed.....
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    I've probably got 30,000 rds right now without counting. I did every deal that came along knowing there'd be another shortage. I take this one out with my 700 Remington's either the 5.56 or the 7.62 and use it for warmup drills.
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    A nice rifle and a timely posting. Due to a decline in smallbore target shooting here in the past few years I have just got onto a clump of Martini BSA target rifles (4x Model 12's, 2x model 12/15's, and 2x Mark II Internationals), all in good order which I intend to make into nice sporting rifles.

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    You will have to keep us posted on the projects Rod...
    Having detail stripped and cleaned the MK3, I was very impressed by the build quality, solid, heavy, beautifully machined and finished, built like a tank in fact...

    Possibly the last gasp of old school, high quality Britishicon Firearms engineering for the general public market, excluding top end brands..

    In fact, at the same time BSA where making these, the quality of their lovely BSA Airsporter air rifles was taking a nose dive, as poor engineering and a quality slide crept in...

    It's quite the juxtaposition of products in fact...

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    I don't suppose anyone has instructions for the Tasco 708 do they, I want to make sure I set it up properly...

    I can't find any information on line, except for the odd sales advert...
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