BOYS ANTI TANK RIFLE - leads to find one
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stencollector
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- shilo MB, the armpit of Canada
The Boys is a pretty rare bird in Canada.
Collectors source in Acton ON had one a few months back. It was modified to 50 cal, and the fine lines of the Boys had not been retained in the profile of the barrel.
If you contact Mr Clark, he may have had a few leads on some at reasonable prices. I say reasonable, because the last ones I saw sell in Canada over the past 5 years or so were all in the 6-7K range.
Collectors source in Acton ON had one a few months back. It was modified to 50 cal, and the fine lines of the Boys had not been retained in the profile of the barrel.
If you contact Mr Clark, he may have had a few leads on some at reasonable prices. I say reasonable, because the last ones I saw sell in Canada over the past 5 years or so were all in the 6-7K range.
Give Valhalla Gun Club in Truro Nova Scotia a call. 902 893 3770. One of the club members has one and they have fired it on occasion when they can find the ammo. I dont know the owners name or if he will sell but its worth a phone call.
stencollector
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- shilo MB, the armpit of Canada
Pretty sure I know who that is and he has it for the same reason that the rest of us do....it fits in our Bren Gun Carriers.
stencollector
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- shilo MB, the armpit of Canada
Reasonable these days seems to be around $30-40. The old price of $25 a round is now cheap. Thats why mine is in 50BMG, cause $6-$8 a round is reasonable and cheap.
Get out yer Vernier calipers, guys!
The Boys cartridge IS the Browning casing, just with a headspacing belt added and the neck opened out to handle a .55" slug. That's all the difference, yet the Boys' cartridge developed EIGHTY percent MORE power than the Browning.
You can make up the headspacing belt from brass tube, turn it into collars on a lathe, knurl the base of the cartridge slightly and smear in your low-temp silver-solder, then ram the collar down along the casing with a tube for a ram, expanding the collar as you go. When the collar is in the right position, it becomes a BELT. That's when you carefully heat the collar to the 400 degrees F that it takes to make the low-temp silver-solder glue everything together. Now you can finish to precise dimensions.
You can make a bullet-mould and cast your own out of hard wheelweight metal. They won't take the velocity of the originals, but they are a BUNCH cheaper and you can run them fast enough to get .50BMG power levels from.
But it's the same casing. Just like making 8x57 out of 7x57, only adding a belt.
Have fun.
The Boys cartridge IS the Browning casing, just with a headspacing belt added and the neck opened out to handle a .55" slug. That's all the difference, yet the Boys' cartridge developed EIGHTY percent MORE power than the Browning.
You can make up the headspacing belt from brass tube, turn it into collars on a lathe, knurl the base of the cartridge slightly and smear in your low-temp silver-solder, then ram the collar down along the casing with a tube for a ram, expanding the collar as you go. When the collar is in the right position, it becomes a BELT. That's when you carefully heat the collar to the 400 degrees F that it takes to make the low-temp silver-solder glue everything together. Now you can finish to precise dimensions.
You can make a bullet-mould and cast your own out of hard wheelweight metal. They won't take the velocity of the originals, but they are a BUNCH cheaper and you can run them fast enough to get .50BMG power levels from.
But it's the same casing. Just like making 8x57 out of 7x57, only adding a belt.
Have fun.
Brutus
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
I have no personal desire to own one presently.
BUT this little tidbit of information is priceless smellie!!!
Cheers.........
