CarlsenHighway
(.300 member)
06/02/12 09:21 PM
Re: Lee Speed restoration

Sarge, the magazine is engraved on the bottom in the same way as the action.
The metal around the mag well is not really proud of the stock - or maybe just a little. Its all flush around the tang safety for example.
The stock is original - there is a thoroughly ancient (virtually unnoticable) repair to a chip at the toe of the butt that matches a slight dint in the engraved buttplate where someone obviously dropped it long in the past. Possibly off the elephant they were on while hunting tigers in India.

She hasn't been a safe queen judging by the buttplate and the handling marks and nicks in the stock. The main thing with it is the rebarrel, which I believe was done some years ago.
Well, I am looking forward to shooting her! Its been a long while since I loaded any .303 ammo.

Oh, I forgot to mention, it's marked on the dustcover: "Army & Navy Co-Op, Victoria St London, " which pleases me no end, because that's where WDM Bell got his .303 from....(who knows, maybe this one IS his one...)



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