BSA Target rifle - 1910-style

tac foley

Evenin' All - if you have a minute to spare, and want to see how some things have come on in the last hundred years, have a look at the bottom of the page here - http://rifleman.org.uk/BSA_Model_1.html

It has been mine for the last twenty years, and it has a very sentimental history attached to it as well.

It shoots pretty well for a hundred-year-old gun, in spite of my tired old eyeballs.

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tommyboy26

very nice rifle i have a .22 b.s.a lever action wouldnt part with it for the world


tommy:D

tac foley

Sir - I also have two BSA Martini-actioned target rifles - a true left-hand actioned MkII international, and a right-hand ditto. Both have big old scopes on from from Unertl - a x18 and x20.

When I get tired of shooting right-handed I can change over to the leftie!

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fish slapped

The rifle and it's condition are a credit to you Sir and may it continue to be respected and passed along your family line for an eternity.

Fish

tac foley

If you care to - E-mail me and I'll send you pix - I can't post them here from my PC.

Best

tac
Supporter of the Cape Meares Lighthouse Restoration Fund

Sparks

The BSA's are lovely little rifles, great for beginners even today. I've been playing a bit with a similar rifle - DURC's Vickers Jubilee (which we've had in the records as a Vickers BSA Martini for a decade for some reason even though that's like saying it's a Porsche Ford internal combustion car ) - and it's just a joy to use - straightforward operation, absolutely robust and reliable, simple to teach a beginner to use and accurate as any of the more modern club rifles. The only drawbacks to it you wouldn't notice if you'd not been shooting for a few years. In fact, it's probably a good idea to shoot a bit with one of those old rifles every so often just to check your basic technique...



I mean, just look at that this trigger mechanism. How simple, how reliable, how utterly ham-handed-beginner-proof is that?





Granted, the match 54 can be as crisp at far lower pressure levels, but for a complete beginner, that's not really that big an advantage. In fact, for the first few weeks at least, it's probably a disadvantage.

Sparks

A very interesting bit of work with a BSA MkIII International upgrading it for rimfire benchrest shooting here. A bit of video from that article:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6Rf0eC7DtU

sfakiaman

I started shooting with my fathers BSA 12-15 back in 1950 and the first club I joined had one as a club rifle and also a .303 Martini sleeved to .22lr. The little BSA Martini's were a great introduction to target shooting.

rowa

i bought one last year (mk5 isu) to convert to a benchrest rifle, haven't done so yet .
these rifles can still shoot well http://www.rimfirecentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=312539