MJ11
03-17-2021, 03:50 PM
Bought as a set With matching 1942 sling and bayonet frog, all the butt trap cleaning gear and 1907 pattern bayonet.
Butt was loose so I made some shims and got the cant right and socket fit tight. 24 hour barrel soak removed gunk and dust showing a perfect shining bore. repace or repaired a few buggered screws and still working on the frozen range slider.
The Dispersal rifles were unique because at the start of the Blitz the Germans missed their target in a night raid but bombed the heck out of the BSA Shirley factory in London. The British were caught with no place to produce the #4 MkI rifle so in the meantime they organized the #1 MkII tooling in dispersed locations to produce badly need arms while they organized the retooling for the #4 MkI and MkI*. Just a small buit of war time history that led to the Savage madee #4 MkI Enfield US property marked .303 rifles from Ithaca, NY.
https://i.imgur.com/XK6aYex.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/mN1DgNx.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/TSDqMZC.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/tUNugoC.jpg
If I can get these Enfield projects done I can get busy on my older Savage 110FP.
Cheers
Dispersal rifle;
"Roughly, after the 1940 bombing of the Small Heath BSA plant, SMLE production was "dispersed" to smaller facilities in the Birmingham area.
BSA was the only producer of rifles in the UK (https://www.milsurps.com/content.php?r=120-united-kingdom) https://www.milsurps.com/autolinker/images/link6.gif
at the time, No4 production hadn't even started, so this was mildly important.
From personal observation, the rifles continued the BSA pre-war serial number letter prefixes through L,M and N from 1940-43. Receivers were MkIII (to 1941)and MkIII* from BSA stock, barrels were new made and carry Enfield inspection marks. Furniture can be Walnut or Beech, salvaged or new.
In 1944, salvaged receivers outside of the L-M-N series were built up into rifles with barrels that were also reused---in one case, a barrel from a 1941 Dispersal rifle was renumbered to match a '44 receiver.
The 1944 rifles also have an "FTR" mark at the bottom of the roll stamp marking on the buttsocket---I have not seen a '44 (8 examples) without this yet, but it is possible there are such rifles."
From 'krinko', Milsurps.com
Butt was loose so I made some shims and got the cant right and socket fit tight. 24 hour barrel soak removed gunk and dust showing a perfect shining bore. repace or repaired a few buggered screws and still working on the frozen range slider.
The Dispersal rifles were unique because at the start of the Blitz the Germans missed their target in a night raid but bombed the heck out of the BSA Shirley factory in London. The British were caught with no place to produce the #4 MkI rifle so in the meantime they organized the #1 MkII tooling in dispersed locations to produce badly need arms while they organized the retooling for the #4 MkI and MkI*. Just a small buit of war time history that led to the Savage madee #4 MkI Enfield US property marked .303 rifles from Ithaca, NY.
https://i.imgur.com/XK6aYex.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/mN1DgNx.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/TSDqMZC.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/tUNugoC.jpg
If I can get these Enfield projects done I can get busy on my older Savage 110FP.
Cheers
Dispersal rifle;
"Roughly, after the 1940 bombing of the Small Heath BSA plant, SMLE production was "dispersed" to smaller facilities in the Birmingham area.
BSA was the only producer of rifles in the UK (https://www.milsurps.com/content.php?r=120-united-kingdom) https://www.milsurps.com/autolinker/images/link6.gif
at the time, No4 production hadn't even started, so this was mildly important.
From personal observation, the rifles continued the BSA pre-war serial number letter prefixes through L,M and N from 1940-43. Receivers were MkIII (to 1941)and MkIII* from BSA stock, barrels were new made and carry Enfield inspection marks. Furniture can be Walnut or Beech, salvaged or new.
In 1944, salvaged receivers outside of the L-M-N series were built up into rifles with barrels that were also reused---in one case, a barrel from a 1941 Dispersal rifle was renumbered to match a '44 receiver.
The 1944 rifles also have an "FTR" mark at the bottom of the roll stamp marking on the buttsocket---I have not seen a '44 (8 examples) without this yet, but it is possible there are such rifles."
From 'krinko', Milsurps.com