Cumbrian

Extremely well made, like all KT products. This is the made to measure version, but I am a fairly average height, weight and build, so it should suit most males with something like a 42-44 inch chest measurement and a height of 5'8 to 6'0. The leather is only slightly worn around the button holes and the right arm and shoulder, likewise the Top Grip parts, and the canvas is still very stiff and not discoloured. I never folded the jacket and kept it full length in a trolley bag. Please message me for photos, which I cannot upload here. £150 (the equivalent new jacket from KT is over £700). NOW SOLD Also available (both washed and clean), Sauer cardigan, blue and black (£100 new now) and Coldwinner top, red and black (£125 new now), large size like the jacket, very little wear is evident on either, the zips work perfectly, and they offer excellent warmth and padding for the elbow. I have found them very comfortable and ideal to go with the jacket. £35 each or £60 for both. Photos available. Postage extra.

This is a lovely little rifle, slightly shorter and lighter barrel version, so it would be particularly suitable for a lady or younger shooter, excellent condition, not much used by its previous (and first) owner, who had several target rifles to alternate with, and hardly used at all by me. Condition attested by its woodwork, rifling, and blueing. Comes complete with sights, both adjustable, modern adjustable hand stop, bipod, Anschutz bolt protector, original screwdriver, original booklet with 50 metres test card, plus 100 rounds of batch tested RW50 (giving, I believe, 12mm grouping). Message me for photos, please, because I cannot upload them here. £450. Hampshire location. RFD transfer possible. I forgot to state that it has a selected barrel, so it will shoot well with a wide range of ammunition.

My small bore shooting days are numbered as a result of recurrent hand and wrist problems. I hope to get to shoot my Anschutz 1800 again, but I will not now be able to use two BSA Internationals that I purchased as a side line but have never shot. I expect that they will be of limited interest to most but I should be happy to respond to a p.m. and then to send photos by email if anyone is a serious potential buyer. The Mk. 3 is in excellent condition. No damage to the hanger. Comes with all the correct dovetails and the latest Parker Hale rearsight (camera lens movement) and standard foresight. Medium dark walnut. I believe that it had previously only one owner. I paid £350 but I would expect less now. The Mk. 5 came from a London club via John Knibbs. The club had several BSAs, none of them used much, and this Mk. 5 has been used hardly at all. Woodwork, bluing etc. etc. all near perfect. Correct dovetails and latest sights exactly as with the Mk. 3. Still has its two additional spacers for the butt, and adjustable (within the limits of the day) butt plate. Light honey coloured walnut. I paid £495 but I would expect less now. These are entirely unmolested, complete, original rifles, each with the later BSA adjustable trigger, which is as good, in my opinion, as anything made today. I doubt if you will find better examples in either case. I also have two complete set of internals for the action (which is the same for both rifles) - firing pin and spring, ejector spring, etc. etc. etc. These are very, very difficult to obtain nowadays and expensive when they do come up for sale. (In fact, I have never seen a complete set for sale.) A set could be included with each rifle for the right overall price.

I have sent you a p.m.

Would this include a Feinwerkbau 300? If so, I have one that I cannot use (the sound of all air rifles scares our dog).

Well, they usually are, but today I checked and the advert had disappeared. However, see the shootingshed.co.uk for the same article or perhaps an alternative (can't recall whether the ebay ones were exactly the same). A new batch is being made, the shootingshed guy reports. Made specifically for the Mk 2s.

Also available on ebay.

Sounds like a good idea, Tim!

I have an official Anschutz one that I would part with for £70 incl postage. In excellent condition but modified to fit 1800 series barrels and, I assume, earlier Match 54 ones, rather than the 1900 series and later. Send me a PM if your barrel would fit it (I could measure the internal diameter) and you are interested. This model was sold by Intershoot until fairly recently for £140, I think. Could be a cheap-ish way to experiment with a device that might not actually improve your scores. Be warned: all these tubes add weight to the muzzle, and probably wobble to your sight picture.

Now sold.

I think I have just sent to you a reply intended for Mike Jenvey!! Sorry - old age is to blame. I will send you a proper PM straightaway. Roger

Many thanks for your interest. You are definitely second in line; the first seems to require photos that, alas, I cannot provide. If that proves a stumbling block, I will of course contact you. The item is exactly as shown on the Intershoot website. The model has not changed in specification or looks since I bought my 568 three years ago. Roger

Multiple colour possibilities. Twin polarisers. 0.5 > 3 iris. 5 colour rings. 30 year guarantee. Sorry about lack of photos (problem with my mobile's camera link to laptop), but easily found at, for example: https://www.intershoot.co.uk/acatalog/Gehmann-48-Colour-Combination-Iris-568MC-303.html (one third the way down the page of 'Rifle Sights -Rear Irises') Very little use and In perfect condition. Original box and spanner. £130 incl. postage (considerably less than 2/3 of the new price)

I have the TECH-RO system of adjustable sight raisers that I could sell to you. I am sending you a PM.

Luke, 1. I deduce that you have not had a reply from Jim Hallam. I will send you his tel. no. by PM, so look out for this. I would guess that he could probably sell you a stock for half the price of the one on ebay, and that assumes that yours is the only bid so far and that no bidding war ensures. For what my opinion is worth, I think the seller has over-priced the item, but it is true that they don't come up that often. 2. Have you noticed that the ebay fore end has been partially glass fibre bedded? May be a good thing, may be not, perhaps an attempt to give a degree of free floating to the barrel, but it is hard to tell from the photos. 3. Also, have you noticed that the ebay butt has been shortened and a (fairly useless) rubber pad fitted? These BSAs tend to be too long in the butt for most of us, so shortening is not necessarily a bad thing, but if you are over 6 foot you might find it a bit short now. However, you could consider fitting a modern butt plate, which would provide much needed adjustment for the stock and give some extra length, too. 4. If you go for the ebay stock, I would check with the seller that the long bolt to fix the butt to the action is present and correct. The advert seems to refer only to the smaller screw bolt for the fore end. Or do you have a butt bolt already? One could be obtained by ordering the appropriate length and size in a UNC bolt, but that might be a pain, though if you had to do that, you could get one with a hex end, which would be an improvement over the original slot-headed bolt. 5. Wherever you finally purchase your stock, I would replace the original, un-user friendly fore end hand stop fixing rail with a standard Anschutz accessory rail, which would enable you to fit any modern hand stop, and a bipod, if desired. The Anschutz ones are readily available on ebay; you just need to work out what length you need. It would require a little bit of wood work, I guess, but it would be a great improvement and make your life much easier when using the rifle. Roger

Tim, I haven't come across that method , but, yes, I expect that it would work, though perhaps at the expense of the complete originality of the barrel. As you say earlier, the only really sound method is to fabricate a one-piece stock. My attempt to connect the fore arm and butt of my Mk 5 works in the sense of rigidity and practicality, but it includes a flat aluminium spar running from the one to the other on the port side of the rifle, which is one of the ugliest things that I have ever seen, so I won't go into details, let alone offer to provide photos. Roger

Hmm, sounds as if batch testing might be difficult. Can you locate the main .22 ammunition retail suppliers to ask them about such a facility? In the UK, RWS and Lapua offer it only once or twice a year at Bisley (possibly more often at club level for RWS), whilst Eley offer it all the time, I believe, but obviously subject to booking. The problem of inserting a hanger for a fore end into a Mk 2 or Mk 5 receiver is that there simply isn't the room, which is why BSA lengthened the receiver quite appreciably to make the free floating barrel for the Mk 3. But their hanger had to be made out of aluminium to save weight, and that led to other problems.

Luke, You will, I think, find several examples of home conversions to a free floating barrel, with photos, if you research the subject on www.targettalk.com. (you need to join first). However, BSAs are not usually a hot topic on this website, though you may find plenty else to interest you there. I have attempted a conversion with a Mk 5. It is not easy. And in the 1950s and 1960s excellent results were obtained with the Mk 2s - in the right hands. A free floating barrel will probably need batch-tested ammunition to get the best out of it, if my two Anschutz 1800 barrels are anything to go by: they have produced batch-tested results varying from 13 mm to 24 mm at 50 metres even with the most expensive RWS and Lapua ammo. BSA barrels are said to be of such quality that they are not too fussy about ammunition, provided it is match grade to start with, and I can readily believe this. Can you access batch testing in Australia? Don't let me put you off your project, however! I hope you are having success with Jim Hallam. Do you lack any particular parts, excepting the butt? A few are still available from John Knibbs at www.airgunspares.com, though frustratingly he also lists many desirable items that are now 'out of stock'.

Welcome, Luke. Your best bet by far - perhaps your only one - is Jim Hallam, near Bisley itself. He has many of these BSAs in various states and models. I was in touch with him earlier this year. He is a good chap, but his contact details are no longer available by Googling his name as they used to be. (I hope this is not ominous.) Therefore I will give you his e-mail, which of course should not normally be done. It is: jim@jimhallam.me.uk Have you looked at the BSA section in https://www.rifleman.org.uk ? If not, you will find a great deal of information there. You might also like to join rimfirecentral.com, which has quite a flourishing 'Martini' forum, though I don't recall any fellow Australians as contributors. It is mostly US based. Roger

That's good. The better two stage trigger is a definite plus, I would say.

Match 54 covers quite a wide range. It looks like the later version with the better trigger - an 1800 series perhaps? It might help your cause to be specific. Good luck.

I may be able to offer you a Mk 5. I will send you a p.m.

Yes, I too have had a message from Mike112 re. Carter. Sounded odd but I thanked him politely, perhaps too politely as things now appear, but I did not pursue the 'lead'.

Should have added that I am right handed. However, it looks like Jim Hallam at Bisley, whom I also asked, will be able to help with the wood. The complete action is a matter for a variation to one's certificate because of the breech block counting as a pressure part, as I suspected, but I deduce that you could dismantle the action and sell off the parts, leaving the breech block behind - or have I got it wrong?

As per title, I would like to buy a BSA Martini International Mk 2 or Mk 3 butt (no need of a fore end). Condition not too important provided it is sound. The reason: I wish to shoot my Mk 3 competitively but the butt is too long and the cheek piece does not suit me and I don't wish to cut the original butt, which, like the rest of the rifle, is in excellent/perfect condition. Perhaps your club has an old BSA languishing that it cannot sell as a complete rifle and which it would be prepared to break up? If so, your club could sell the sights for a decent sum (just see what they go for on ebay) and sell the butt to me. I would also be interested in parts from the action as spares, if a way could be found to transfer them without my having to obtain a new slot on my FAC; nearly all the parts removable from the action are or have been freely sold as individual bits and pieces (see the John Knibbs web site), even though the complete, detachable action would probably count as a pressure part, like a conventional bolt, and therefore require a slot, even without the barrel - unless someone knows different, in which case I would buy the complete action. Any help will be greatly appreciated.