BSA model 15 arrived yesterday, and as per usual I took lots of pics!

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Here it is! Apparently this model is very rare and only a Small handfull were produced in 1931, and this one is in overall good condition, and would be graded better if it werent for idle hands... Thankfully the screw-ups i can fix. Sometime over the past 80 years someone tried to polish the trigger and removed about 1/32" too much material and now the block won't lock low enough to load a round cleanly without either pushing the ramp down about 1/16" or holding the lever forward. It's still easy to operate but faulty none the less... One day I'll drop a small tig weld on top of the trigger and file it to fit properly, but for now it works well enough to not bother repairing it until Im ready to take it out of use for a while.
That could be a long while! But the metal isnt rusty, and the wood isn't half bad either! Pretty good score finding this, the first pistol grip small frame martini ever produced!!!
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I saw pics of this rifle ,so asked a friend who has one to bring it on our pistol club shoot night! It had the best breaking like glass trigger I have tryed in a long time! It shot about 1/4"to3/8" groups at 20 metre in a dark dingy underground range! Cheers on keeping a classic alive an shooting weel, dale Z!
 
The first year that BSA made a Model 15 is 1932 and they all had checkered stocks. Model 15s were made between 1932 and 1939. Your rifle is a early production, 1933 or 1934 because it has the cocking indicator that sticks up through the receiver. The later models do not have that feature. Any of the BSAs are beautiful rifles so enjoy it.
 
Nice BSA, I would like to have a Martini International again, got talked out of my last one a few years ago and regretted selling it.
I have two Martini .22 rifles one is similar to yours and the other one is very lite and is marked WW Greener. Everything about it is typical of WW Greener finely made sights, lite barrel and properly fitting wood.
The other is a cadet model in VG metal and wood.
 
I have a 12/15(looks almost like yours) that a found after a few years of searching on the EE here.Its been restored so looks almost new.I really enjoy shooting it and its very accurate.I shot these when I was a cadet in the 70s,so its always a bit of a nostalgia trip for me shooting this old rifle

A great resource to learn more about these is to go to the rimfire forum,they have a BSA section there,lots of great info in the stickys
 
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