Odd Lithgow/Ishapore

[krinko]

Just opened the box on this one Friday.

It's an FTR marked 1941 Lithgow with an MA56 date and evidence that it was one of the rifles sold to India sometime in the early 1960s.

Blonde wood----including the original SLAZ buttstock, which is numbered to the rifle and an RFI produced forestock that is unlike anything I have seen on an Indian rifle, ever.

The butt and forestock are both marked with this device:

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I have one of the Aussie rifles from the AIM/TGI inport of a couple years back---and the rifles share marking and Lithgow FTR characteristics----but this one is several orders of magnitude beyond the first one.

More photos, this weekend, if possible.

Odd stuff-

1.Barrel from a '41 Dispersal rifle, renumbered to fit this receiver.

2.Wood grain of the Ishapore marked and "strapped" forestock very similar to the blonde Coachwood.

3.Pinned windage backsight, which has been nicely unpinned.

4.This freaking mark.

Later.

-----krinko

[Aughnanure]

Wait until you come across an Ishapore that has been FTRed at Lithgow.

[krinko]

I am a lazy sod...

Didn't get any more pictures of the odd duck because I was doing this instead...

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One of these is an Enfield.

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This photo is for Adam---

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Shoots really well, too.

-----krinko

[Woftam]

Goodness moi - another Mas, twice the visual pleasure. I'm sure Adam will be unable to contain his joy

Of course I could be wrong.

Nice rifles Krinko, how does the Mas shoot ?

Can't help you out with the Tulip style mark. Personal decoration ? I'm assuming from your wording the forestock (and therefore the marking) post dates it leaving Australia ?

Is the No 1 in the second picture the rifle in question ?

[krinko]

Woftam,

The MAS shoots well enough---too wet to set targets so I was shooting at steel, thus, no evidence.

Yes, the mark postdates Australian ownership, it's on the Aussie buttstock and the RFI forestock.

Probably will never get it identified, but the previous owner says he did not put it on.

The SMLE in the photos is the rifle in question...it was out for the fire test.

Whatever else it is, it's really in great shape.

-----krinko

[DuncaninFrance]

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