I wish! Those things by themselves are worth more than my entire collection!
Even if you had the mechanism I am guessing ammo would be a pain in the arse to find.
Now below I have added some photos, before you guys call me a bubba or a heretic (I know you will anyway) please understand that I have not made any permamanent modification to the rifle at all. I would be loath to do that to any military rifle in my collection.
The rifle is a No.4MkI produced at Fazarkley in 1944. It is a sure 'height of the war' piece, having some machining marks present on the receiver and the 'flap of steel' but plate. However the metal is in good condition and the bore is bright with sharp lands and groves and only some very minor pitting at one point. It has always been a great shooter.
Now a friend of mine has just got into shooting recently and we have been doing a lot of hunting. In the interest of taking game as precisely and cleanly as possible over a variety of ranges I've decided I want a scoped hunting rifle. Not actually owning such a rifle, I decided to set up one of my military rifles for the task. So what I have done is added an aftermarket sporter stock, a no drill scope mount (I used the SK mount) and a 3-9x scope. This is the end result.
The rifle is now a lot lighter and handier, which will make things easier when out in the bush. It also shoulders very nicely and feels well balanced.
I took it to the range on the weekend and zeroed it, I was shooting Federal 180gr loads. I'm not going to use these as my hunting load, I'm planning to work up a 150gr load for that. However I wanted to see what she would do with factory ammo and had half a box of this stuff laying around. I started off by bore sighting it at the 25 yard line and then went straight from that to my target at the 100 yard line.
This is the first time I've ever zeroed a scope myself having always shot milsurps. So I was pretty happy that it only took me 5 shots to do it. Here's a pic of the target I used (I also numbered the shots). Aiming at the bull the first shot was high and to the left, the second shot was way to the right as I was a little over zealous with my scope adjustment. For the third shot I adjusted it back to the left and down, it was much closer now. I turned it four clicks back to the left and then shot the fourth shot, I felt it looked about dead on there and shot the fifth.
I then left that target and moved on to shooting at the small targets I had on another target board. I only had 6 rounds left but I shot two groups of three which were about an 1 inch each (maybe 1 and a 1/4). I am pretty damn happy with that from a 67 year old rifle and factory ammo, can't wait to see what handloads will produce.
