BSA Martini 12/15 Handstop

NuJudge · Post by **NuJudge** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 4:07 am

Is this what they look like?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... %3AIT&rd=1

I bought a 12/15 a few years ago, and it had a brass plate inlet into the fore stock, with a series of threaded holes in the plate. Inquiries of various persons in Jolly Old always gets the same response, that the proper handstop is common, but nobody ever produced one for me.

CDD

belgmart · Post by **belgmart** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 6:26 am

Axctually didn't have the rail in the forend, so this is on many rifles an aftermarket accessory - I even have a forend with the typical sliding rail and the handstop that belongs to it - not yet mounted on a rifle though... (i'm like a squirrel, I`m stocking 12/15 wood just in case in need some in the future

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Mk VII · Post by **Mk VII** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 6:54 pm

it's pretty much what I'd expect to see, although the bipod is an unusual addition.

In later years many of us had an Anschutz rail put in instead[/u]

dromia · Post by **dromia** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 9:42 am

That handstop is not an original 12/15 item as these handstops were for use in an inletted rail which the 12/15s werent factory fitted with. Many 12/15s had these rails added. At first the stops were a screw fit into a series of threaded holes in the rail but then the sliding handstop in a "T" rail came in.

Many items were just screwed into the wood to act as hand stops, I remember a period when rubber door stops were used to good effect.

These DIY screw in jobs often became slack and had to be moved, many 12/15s can be found with sundry screw holes in the forestock demonstrating this.

There is a good 12/15 article on the HARC web site here:

http://rifleman.org.uk/index-45.html

NuJudge · Post by **NuJudge** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 10:16 am

The screw on the one pictured looks larger than the holes in my forearm, but nothing a drill press and a tap can't fix.

The HARC postal league looks interesting. Do you think they'd mind a competitor from the US?

Christopher Dingell

SE Michigan

dromia · Post by **dromia** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 10:43 am

Christopher,

they are amenable to non UK entries, I've asked in the past. They do the results electronically and you'll need some targets sending over, they'd probably accept photocopied targets.

I'd shoot Terrance O'Hanlon Smith and email, his address is on the web site.

I've got 6 rifles entered in 8 competitions this year, I just love those leagues.

Mk VII · Post by **Mk VII** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 10:49 am

you'd shoot Terrance? Sounds rather alarming.

dromia · Post by **dromia** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 10:53 am

If it was me doing the shooting he'd be quiet safe, I only hit things I aim at by accident.

BSA Martini 12/15 Handstop

BSA Martini 12/15 Handstop

Most BSA rifles...

Thanks for all the replies