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Reply #15 - Nov 5th, 2020 at 11:35am
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The previous post to mine.
What the blazes is "Brit think"?
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Reply #16 - Nov 5th, 2020 at 1:41pm
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I was not aware that you live in England.
  

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Reply #17 - Nov 7th, 2020 at 12:31am
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What the blazes is "Brit think"?

For several years I worked for a company out of England, for us damn "Yanks" we didn't "think" like they did.  Not nearly as structured and refined, got harassed,verbally abused and even threatened - until I made the comment once that we'd kicked their butts 200 years before and we'd do it again on this soil if need be.   They liked our revenue generated so they allowed me free reign, ignoring their "Brit Think" and I'm told they blamed me for some of the "Damn Yank" ideas they still use - today.
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Reply #18 - Nov 7th, 2020 at 6:55am
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Landis’ book on .22 rifle shooting indicates that a serious smallbore shooter using the Lesmok and Semi-Smokeless target ammunition of the day would wear out his gilt-edged barrel from the necessary cleaning in a half-dozen seasons or so.

I would not be surprised to see a liner in such a target rifle, or, for that matter, modifications to the stock.  People used the things their hard-earned money purchased the way they wanted to use them, back in the Good Old Days.  No “Safe Queens” or “Investments” in the gun line back then.
  
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Reply #19 - Nov 13th, 2020 at 12:53am
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Don't remember where I read this so here goes. Story was that folks liked the A.J Parker or Parker Hale liners for their accuracy. So it wasn't uncommon for someone with a new 22rf target rifle to send it in to have the new barrel relined. FWIW. By the same token I knew a gunsmith that did a land office business rebarreling center fire rifles. Folks would send in a brand new rifle after testing it and found the accuracy wanting. I've got a brand new Remington Sendero barrel in 308 sitting on my shelves. I could never get the same accuracy from my Sendero in 308 that I can easily get from a 30-06. Go figure. Frank
  
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Reply #20 - Dec 20th, 2020 at 10:14pm
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I have seen one ,  serial # 52 at a gun show may be 2 yrs. ago
possibly previously owned by Mike Roberts I think
  
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Reply #21 - Dec 20th, 2020 at 11:34pm
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I'm still looking for another one if you have any idea how to get in touch with Mike Roberts.
  
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Reply #22 - Dec 21st, 2020 at 10:12am
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Reply #23 - Dec 21st, 2020 at 7:56pm
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sl44   You won't be getting in touch with Mike Roberts.   
Been dead for years.  A  good guy.
  
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Reply #24 - Dec 23rd, 2020 at 11:48pm
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Looks like I'm a little late. Sorry to hear he has passed.
  
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Reply #25 - Dec 27th, 2020 at 10:27am
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Rubbish is Brit speak for nonsense. 

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Reply #26 - Dec 27th, 2020 at 10:35am
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When I worked in Australia was the Norwegian companies official Australian American interpreter.  Bill of lading clerk in Brisbane called me, could not find “wheely bins” in our tariff. = trash can with wheels.  Use them when taking rubbish to the tip in your Ute 

Must be hundreds of terms that need interpretation 

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Reply #27 - Jan 1st, 2021 at 10:36pm
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I think Waterman was being facetious in quoting what a typical Brit would think about an American manufactured .22 as they ruled the world at that time.  May have been a lend-lease rifle.
  

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Reply #28 - Jan 2nd, 2021 at 4:45pm
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boats wrote on Dec 27th, 2020 at 10:35am:
When I worked in Australia was the Norwegian companies official Australian American interpreter.  Bill of lading clerk in Brisbane called me, could not find “wheely bins” in our tariff. = trash can with wheels.  Use them when taking rubbish to the tip in your Ute 

Must be hundreds of terms that need interpretation 

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Boats, its the garbo's that take our rubbish to the tip. The wheely bins are used to put the empty tinnies in and then we wheel them to the footpath for collection by the garbo's.  Grin
  
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Reply #29 - Aug 12th, 2021 at 2:01pm
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Hi
I have #48, which was on loan to the Museum at the NRA Ranges at Bisley for 20 years, until the Chief Exec told the Curator that the Museum owned NOTHING and that everything there could be sold and the funds would go into the general funds of the NRA.

My view is that there were (possibly) 50 made -- - but they were FAR too costly for the parsimonious Brits --  at £5 guineas (about $25 at the time) they were twice as expensicve as the best BSA Martini .22 target rifle.
I know that there is one in Savage's place in Westfield, MA but I have only seen one other --- cut down into a sporter because (at the time) it was "some old Martini .22".

I wonder what it would fetch if I got it to the USA ?

(Apologies for my lousy 2-finger typing)
  
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