| Brithunter |
| (.300 member) |
| 10/04/16 08:05 PM |
|
Re: .303 British
|
Quote:
Aha! The old Parker Hale sporting .303 conversion, very common and popular here in the '60's and '70's.
If you dont care to shoot it with a scope with the Monte Carlo style stocks, you can easily replace them - the Parker Hale rifles were given brand new commercial barrels and had good open sights; (although I dont think I have ever seen one with that .30-30 style rear sight with elevator, and a front blade they nearly all over here over flip over williams rear sight, and a bead front sight - maybe for the US market)
The five round magazines are worth a few dollars now too.
Additionally, I have never seen one where they took the charger bridge off, or had them drilled and tapped for a side mount - virtually every one I have seen still had the bridge, and were drilled on top of receiver for a special Parker Hale scope mount, which utilised the charger bridge at the rear. (A mount which takes PH scope rings - they were useless rings that always break, and vitually impossible to find now because of it)
The P-H with the charger bridge removed is the "Custom" and it uses a side mount that is the P-H BA27 mount for the No1 action. I have one of these mounts in front of me as I type this. There was the A27 mount for the No4 action "Custom". Also not all P-H conversions had new barrels. I believe they inspected and gauged them and if good they were left just re-blacked. The higher level offerings of the "Supreme" and "Custom" their catalogues does not mention the barrels but I used to own a No1 Supreme that still had a 1916 dated barrel fitted the No4 supreme that I currently own has a 39 dated barrel fitted if i recall correctly.
Parker-Hale also offered a version of the P-H 16 sporting aperture rear sight to fit the No1 action. This was the P-H 16F but I think with slight modifcation the std P-H16 can be adapted to fit.
Remember P-H switched to fitting Williams sights to their rifles including the Mauser actioned models. All my 1100's, 1200's bar the 1100M have Williams sights fitted. BSA also switched over to using Williams sights on their rifles.
Amongst my cache of bits there is a nice 5 round converted No1 magazine here that has a No3 follwer in it.