If the bore's all right you could get a shot out barrel and make a sleeve with the sight/bayonet lugs ... sheeeesh! What some people do to these rifles!

Great bit of Aussie shooting history. What action is it based on? (manufacturer/date).

They look very very nice. Do you find the high mounts OK? Were a bit of a neck streatcher for me. I see we are on the same continent, are we anyways close? For all those who live in little islands/states 200miles is close :) :) Eoin. I reckon the high mount is nigh on impossible to use without the ...

G'day all, thought I'd just post some pix of some Wild Colonial boys. Here's my No1 MkIII* HT (Heavy barrel, Telescopic sight), which is based on a 1916 Lithgow action and converted to a sniper rifle in November, 1944. It has an Australian Lithgow heavy target barrel, and mounts an Aussie copy of th...

G'day all ... just thought I'd try out the photo attachment procedure and share a picture I took of some Mosin Nagant Sniper Rifles I got together for an article I wrote for an Australian mag. From the top they are 1944 Iszevsks left and right, 1953 and 1954 M/52 (Hungarian 91/30 PUs) and a 1943 Isz...

G'day all, recently saved a 1942 Lithgow from the police furnace for a bargain price and it had this on it, which I later verified was a Lithgow made Argyle sight base with military "broad arrow" stamps on it (these sights were used by military big bore range teams and were mounted on SMLE...

Ooooops, posted previous under guest. Posted this from another forum to get some topics on the new board. Cheers! Just picked up my first trainer - a relatively rare (only about 1000 made) British Navy 22 Short Rifle MkII - and I have a few questions. I'd imagine that like the Australian HT snipers...