Thread: My BSA

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

Had an interesting pm just now that seems to line up with this rifle and it's history. Very cool. The power of the Forum!

Story time!

Thanks for sharing, rifle looks great.

Maybe get the chequering re-cut?

Originally Posted by caberslash

Story time!

Thanks for sharing, rifle looks great.

Maybe get the chequering re-cut?

Rifle was originally purchased by a fella named Barry Nicholas who was a forest service culler and when that finished up and deer were worth a lot on the hook Barry continued to hunt the weekends for meat animals. Barry was a lefty and it was he who originally deleted the cheekpiece from the stock. He sold his rifle to the forum member who pmd me about 30 years ago and he himself sold it to a friend near Fairlie with a "if you ever sell it, sell it back to me" clause but he was overseas when it came time to move it on so the wife of the previous owner sold it to a local. I bought the rifle which was sold on behalf by a forum member from the very small town where I was told it would have now been located. I did my own wee bit of research and see that Barry passed onto the big hunting ground in the sky in 2013.

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

Rifle was originally purchased by a fella named Barry Nicholas who was a forest service culler and when that finished up and deer were worth a lot on the hook Barry continued to hunt the weekends for meat animals. Barry was a lefty and it was he who originally deleted the cheekpiece from the stock. He sold his rifle to the forum member who pmd me about 30 years ago and he himself sold it to a friend near Fairlie with a "if you ever sell it, sell it back to me" clause but he was overseas when it came time to move it on so the wife of the previous owner sold it to a local. I bought the rifle which was sold on behalf by a forum member from the very small town where I was told it would have now been located. I did my own wee bit of research and see that Barry passed onto the big hunting ground in the sky in 2013.

Thats a wonderful history. Worth writing down so its never lost.