New Arrival- ME .303 and Mystery Initials
Gentlemen,Managed to snap this up from one of the usual auction sites. Came complete with an old sling. A trifle corrosion-nibbled here and there, but not too shabby:I intend to shoot this at...
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Yes, you will need to fix that screw. Otherwise the stock will go sliding down the barrel under the force of recoil. Nice catch, Victor. I haven't seen to many of these, let alone converted to ME....
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nice one.. if only they were off ticket over here.. (the hunt for a pure martini metford continues) I'll dig through the parts bin this weekend to see if I have a screw.
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Thank you, gentlemen. Henk, much appreciated. Neither IMA nor AC has said screw, not surprising as no MKIIIs were found in the Nepal Cache. Michael, funny thing… it seems the stock on my NZ carbine...
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Victor, Luckily, you have a friend with a lathe who can make said screw. I'll pull the one from my BSA Mk III and see what it looks like. -Michael
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So, are the screws different to the ones on the Mk.IV?
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Fore stock hook screws are the same for I.C.I ,Mk III and IV
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Thanks for clarifying that, Herbert. I would have thought that would have been the case.
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I forgot that little fact… indeed, the hook plates on MKIVs are stamped III, as I recall. However, none of those parts show up on the usual sites either. Also not surprising, as the MKIVs from Nepal...
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No hookplate screws in the parts bin.. Michael.. It's upto you I guess.
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