Now this is an antique:-
A real antique because it's over 100 years old
Now this one on the other hand is only a decade or so old:-
Of course it cost a lot more. Now if it had big greens name on it the swampman would be extolling it's virtues and how it was not really that expensive. But it's a British made rifle soooooooooooooooooooo
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Now this one:-
Well it's how Big green got into bolt actions. Pity they could read the drawings properly though
that's why the P-14, or No3 rifle, was
not adopted to replace the Lee Enfield. It's only by accident that parts are interchangeable unlike with the Lee Enfield. Heck even Ishapore could make the parts to drawing and the gauges. Sadly Remington and Winchester did not.
Enfield Lock and the Pattern Room should have sent inspectors over to oversee production but didn't. the rest is as they say history.
I wonder how Remington would have faired without the P-14 to build their bolt action on?
Of course mine is not a model 30 Remington but a BSA Model E dating from between 1949-1953
Built on a WW1 P-14 some of which were battle field pick ups. The War department was clearing out depots after WW2 which is how BSA came to build these sporting rifles as BSA never tooled up for P-14 production it made the Lee Enfield in it's various marks of which BSA produced 1,250,000 of during WW2. I do not have the figures for WW1's production of the SMLE by BSA.
Now even after some "enlightened soul" completely trashed the stock and bedding this old, 1950's, BSA Majestic still wants to shoot:-
I brought it cheap as a project to re-barrel as the bore looked badly worn. Well yes it is worn but not as badly as first thought. What it was, was, full of jacket and nitro fouling build up I doubt it had ever been cleaned properly. A week end spent cleaning the bore and this is the first shots out of a cold clean barrel:-
Now with a new stock bedded properly I expect it to shoot more consistently and possibly tighter groups. God only knows how many rounds have been through this barrel.
As a result I had to find another donor to re-barrel.
