Sold April 2025 to a confidential private collection. Photos first - details and descriptions coming soon! I first met the Boys Anti-Tank...

Sold in April 2025 to a confidential private collector. Picking up where the 1950's L8 project left off and re-using the 7.62x51mm NATO extractor and 10 Round Magazine developed for it - the L42 concept was to convert existing stocks of No4mk1T sniper to a platform that see out the latter half of the cold war from 1970 on. Civilian target shooting had demonstrated that a NATO converted No4 rifle could be precise and accurate so these learnings were rolled into the design. A

The discussion of rifle shooting competitors with the Lee Enfield models often focus on Bisely and contributions of Parker Hale, or Central of Australia, but Canada has quietly made significant contributions to the technology until the later parts of the 20th Century. Here we have a DCRA conversion to 7.62x51mm NATO based on a BSA FTR and converted (to mk2 trigger specification), wartime BSA rifle - that has had a very high level of gunsmith execution to deliver stage 2 resin