Milsurp After Hours

A friend of mine is selling his fathers gun collection. He brought me this rife, not knowing the Who, what and how much.

The WHO: The only markings are: "Rep. Van Suid-Afrika
The WHAT: A single shot rifle, bolt action with a full shrouded reciever( built in one piece) Mauser style bolt w/2 locking lugs. Caliber marking is 7.62. Chamber cast showed it to be a 308 Winchester. Rear sight is marked in 3 lines, Alf. J. Parker
Birmingham
Model TZ3-55

I can find nothing about the maker. And the sight is not listed on the Parker website.



HELP!!

Oneshooter
Livin in Texas

Can't help with the rifle but the sight could possibly be a TZ 3/53.
TZ were the Parker Hale Twin Zero sights - there are two zeros on the elevating scale plate, giving at the same time, zero on the vernier scale and zero on the range scale.
They were made, I think, for the P14 rifles. Probably worth a penny in its own right.

Does the rifle look anything like this:

Your pics are a bit dark, but yes that resembles it. I talked to some shooters today, Highpower Match, and they said it may be a Palma rifle.
I hope to have some decent pics next week.

Oneshooter
Livin in Texas

Probably a Musgrave, they made some Palma match rifles.