As the supply of original complete SAN0 15 Transit Chests dries up and the prices / values keeps escalating, I thought it was time to...

I won this 1943 T "sporter" configuration from an online auction - the 1943 models are a little more tricky to define as "real" and buyers don't often bid like they trust the markings or photographs. An interesting facet of this year of production is that BSA (Shirley - their rifle producing location) started the year using its traditional "B" makers mark, then received the "M47" war effort manufacturer designation and then added the factory designations "A-B-C" (C for Shirl

· British 303 are head spaced on the rim – really a rim space, which is changed with the bolt head for one with a different (target) length – the rifle action is “failed cartridge safe” by design – the rim space limits are very generous by design and manufacture (with war time relaxations) to allow all grades of ammunition to chamber under all conditions. Tightening and "over head spacing" (rim spacing) is probable and this can challenge the bolt achieving “lock”. · Bolt head

A brief discourse on the No4 Lee Enfield snipers rifle from the collectors perspective By Roger J. Payne and David R. Tomkinson (Text Published in Dispatches Edition # 6 August 1999) I was graciously given permission by the authors to reproduce their work here Thank you Roger! The armed forces of Gt. Britain and her commonwealth entered the Second World War equipped with the same sniping rifles with which they had finished the great War, some twenty one years earlier; namely

History of the bracket. Unconventional Rose Brothers example Serial numbers Identifying Original Bracket Forms Rose Bros bracket - 3D...