Thread: All things BSA

I got my first BSA on my 16th birthday - a 1917 BSA SMLE that was FTR'd to new condition. I eventually sporterised it after a few hunting trips in the fully wooded condition, and it shot a lot of game over the years including a period when the NZFS was supplying the ammo in case lots (hollow pointed CAC Mk VII). It was far from my first gun but it was my first legal one!

Got any pics there @gundoc of you and your birthday gun bring home the bacon our any other game?

I didn't own a camera for many years but I do have some photos taken by mates. I will have a rummage in a large box of photos and see what I can find.

This photo is BSA relevant. This is a 10 pointer I shot in Amphitheatre Creek, Avoca, in 1976. The rifle is a BSA Hunter in .308. He had a harem of 5 hinds and I had been tracking him for most of the day after spotting him at about 1k. I took him with a head shot at about 150 metres.

This photo is neither BSA related nor a successful hunt. This me in 1979 on a Black Bear hunt in Vermont. Gun is an S&W M29 8-3/8" .44 Magnum. Our timing was a bit late as there had been a real cold snap (icicles over 2 feet long hanging off the hut roof) and the bears had gone into hibernation early. I wasn't with an outfitter, just a couple of mates who lived in the next state (Massachussets) and had a hunting lodge in Vermont.

Oh the kidney killing packs @gundoc do you recall the story behind the grave stone?

It is not a grave stone, it is a marker for the state line. The clear area on the left is on old road. If I took one step backwards I would be in Massachussets and breaking the law for carrying a pistol without a permit. Vermont is an open state for pistol carry.

Right so where is that step back photo

Originally Posted by Sideshow

Right so where is that step back photo

It will probably be in the 'never to be published' box!

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Just saw this wow.

That was a BSA factory accessory known as a 'Range Adapter'. You attached it over the muzzle brake when you were on a shooting range to avoid discomfort to other shooters from the side blast. I haven't seen one for many years!

Originally Posted by gundoc

That was a BSA factory accessory known as a 'Range Adapter'. You attached it over the muzzle brake when you were on a shooting range to avoid discomfort to other shooters from the side blast. I haven't seen one for many years!

thanks for clearing that up . . . i was given one years ago and always wondered what it was

R

Originally Posted by rossi.45

thanks for clearing that up . . . i was given one years ago and always wondered what it was

R

They would be as rare as rocking horse shit

Where are you all hosting photos now that photobucket is queer?

Thanks for that gundoc. Maybe I'll use it for my retirement fund. Yea right.

Stained and back together ,I didn't spent to long on it as it's a working rifle and I don't mind a gun that show's it dents and bruises's ...history.
Not a great photo, late afternoon sun and camera phone makes it look to orange, cool old girl to use and getting some great kill's on rabbits with it.