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Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 4:59 am
Joe
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For Woftam
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Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 2:09 pm
Give me the .303 Martini anyday, those big old .45 coal burners aren`t my cup of tea.
Joe
Joe
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 3:38 pm
Can I sit on the Heartless Bastard's Stool, too?
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Here's the left side---
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The butt---
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This is just plain mean, but I will still point out that the rifle used to actually be in Australia---
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Shoots MkVII ball very nicely. A six-o-clock hold gets good results with the ranges as marked on the sight.
-----krinko
Here's the left side---
The butt---
This is just plain mean, but I will still point out that the rifle used to actually be in Australia---
Shoots MkVII ball very nicely. A six-o-clock hold gets good results with the ranges as marked on the sight.
-----krinko
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 4:27 pm
LOL!!!!! Krinko you have to be the meanest. Poor Woftam, hell you might as well just kick him in the balls!!!!!!
Lovely rifle by the way!!!!!
Regards
Ian
Lovely rifle by the way!!!!!
Regards
Ian
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 5:41 pm
"Brown paper packages tied up with string" - why does that have a familiar ring to it ? Yes Eoin you're a real (old) bastard. 
Just for you Krinko - the seat is coming off the stool before you sit on it.
Nice rifle by the way. Hopefully it got to the US before it had to be disfigured with import marks. I see you got the Royal Marines model.
http://www.gunboards.com/forums/topic.a ... _ID=231611
Just for you Krinko - the seat is coming off the stool before you sit on it.
Nice rifle by the way. Hopefully it got to the US before it had to be disfigured with import marks. I see you got the Royal Marines model.
http://www.gunboards.com/forums/topic.a ... _ID=231611
Just showing off.
Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 3:32 pm
Although not quite the same, I do have a rifle of similar configuration that I have been showing off on other boards, maybe you have seen it? Sorry if this is old hat, but it is my pride and joy right now, and most definately my favourite 'shootin iron'. As a project she is just about complete and looking and working just the way I want.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v206/ ... trifle.jpg[/pic]
It was advertised in my local newspaper for several weeks for a hundred bucks. Eventualy curiosity got the better of me and I called the number and bought it over the phone. I wanted it for a parts rifle for the internals to restore a Webley made 577/450. It was a 'Bubba' special in that the forearm had been cut back to make it into a handy sporter. Nothing wrong with that in my eyes if it is done properly, in this part of Canada, sportered rifles have put more meat on the table probably than any other. Bubba had sanded down and whittled at the buttstock cut back the forearm and held the front of it with a hose clamp. The rear sight bed was gone and a home made hand filed receiver sight mounted.
I made the mistake of shooting the darn thing before I stripped it for parts and to my disbelief, it proved itself to be a tack driver. This parts rifle immediately became a project rifle.
The barrel has a mirror bore with sharp strong rifling. I have a cupboard full of Lee Metfords and Lee enfields, this is my first 303 Martini, probably won't be my last.
So I found the parts to put it back into 'original' condition. As original as a trade pattern rifle might be. It has few markings other than crown BV, BP proofs. I have no idea who made it.
The butt is from a carbine (I think) and under the elastic cartridge holder has the brass disk and BE Co. roundel underscored with III. The sight bed and leaf are from a Lee Metford and the forewood and nosecap came from a chap in Newfoundland. Kicker is that the parts in the receiver each have two file marks on them (smith's assembly marks?), the replacement forewood hook and nosecap coincidently have the same two marks! After cleaning, the patina of the forewood matched the butt exactly. So Now it looks like it has always been together that way. The rear handguard is a modified SMLE unit. The front sight blade is adjustable with a dovetail in the sight ramp.
I live out in the sticks of Ontario, black bear, lynx and wolf are common. Never had a problem, but this puppy comes along with me whenever I go out and cut wood.
It is what we call a truck gun cos it slides in nicely behind the bench seat of my pick me up truck.
So obviously, not original to those in the know, but it gets lots of interest and questions at the hunt camp, especialy when I knock down just about everything I shoot at.
I've been offered silly money for it, but won't sell. So far I have a total of almost two hundred canuckian dollars into it! It put meat in my freezer with one round of softpoint this last fall so I consider that it has paid for itself in full.
Can't seem to find too much info on these trade pattern riflees. Not a military pattern and not a common civilian arm. Nobody writes about them. I've never seen another one other than in pictures on the net.
It was advertised in my local newspaper for several weeks for a hundred bucks. Eventualy curiosity got the better of me and I called the number and bought it over the phone. I wanted it for a parts rifle for the internals to restore a Webley made 577/450. It was a 'Bubba' special in that the forearm had been cut back to make it into a handy sporter. Nothing wrong with that in my eyes if it is done properly, in this part of Canada, sportered rifles have put more meat on the table probably than any other. Bubba had sanded down and whittled at the buttstock cut back the forearm and held the front of it with a hose clamp. The rear sight bed was gone and a home made hand filed receiver sight mounted.
I made the mistake of shooting the darn thing before I stripped it for parts and to my disbelief, it proved itself to be a tack driver. This parts rifle immediately became a project rifle.
The barrel has a mirror bore with sharp strong rifling. I have a cupboard full of Lee Metfords and Lee enfields, this is my first 303 Martini, probably won't be my last.
So I found the parts to put it back into 'original' condition. As original as a trade pattern rifle might be. It has few markings other than crown BV, BP proofs. I have no idea who made it.
The butt is from a carbine (I think) and under the elastic cartridge holder has the brass disk and BE Co. roundel underscored with III. The sight bed and leaf are from a Lee Metford and the forewood and nosecap came from a chap in Newfoundland. Kicker is that the parts in the receiver each have two file marks on them (smith's assembly marks?), the replacement forewood hook and nosecap coincidently have the same two marks! After cleaning, the patina of the forewood matched the butt exactly. So Now it looks like it has always been together that way. The rear handguard is a modified SMLE unit. The front sight blade is adjustable with a dovetail in the sight ramp.
I live out in the sticks of Ontario, black bear, lynx and wolf are common. Never had a problem, but this puppy comes along with me whenever I go out and cut wood.
It is what we call a truck gun cos it slides in nicely behind the bench seat of my pick me up truck.
So obviously, not original to those in the know, but it gets lots of interest and questions at the hunt camp, especialy when I knock down just about everything I shoot at.
I've been offered silly money for it, but won't sell. So far I have a total of almost two hundred canuckian dollars into it! It put meat in my freezer with one round of softpoint this last fall so I consider that it has paid for itself in full.
Can't seem to find too much info on these trade pattern riflees. Not a military pattern and not a common civilian arm. Nobody writes about them. I've never seen another one other than in pictures on the net.
Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 5:39 pm
It's come together nicely as a project hasn't it ? Well done.
Wish I could find one (even a project) for $100. Just have to keep looking I suppose.
Wish I could find one (even a project) for $100. Just have to keep looking I suppose.