Thread: All things BSA

Originally Posted by viper

@Sideshow has contacted me and asked me to re-post photo's of a BSA CF2 I purchased a year or more back. It is in the mighty .222 and was a little unusual . Firstly it had been a deer cullers rifle and the barrel was shot out.
A guy I tracked down who had brought it off the old culler had it re- barreled and it shot very well with well under sub MOA with a variety of 50 gr factory ammo.
However the most unusual feature was some very nice gun smithing with the making of a drop out box mag.
The system worked well and feed good as gold when shooting.
I have since on sold the rifle to a friend as for a left handed shooter it was very uncomfortable with that high sharp comb.

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I remember reading one of the older books about this rifle,type of rifle being used.
the culler bought it before the sako vixen etc were around and as it had bigger/stronger action being a .308 bolt/action size had it loaded up rather warmly. was shooting thar etc with it in mt cook region and being smaller cartridge they could hold on to schrubbery and shoot it one handed when needed.
the large capacity magazine and small cartridge made it a very good combination for comercial work.
Im guessing here,his reloading was probably done with whackamole lee loader as I cannot see a bench mounted press being used in huts etc.

the sako ammunition shown above...has anyone tried to reverse engineer it???