Boys rifle

Tried that.

The historic part she bought into, but mentioning the price of about $8 per round for the ammo was a real quick downer too.

Investment was a no-go.

Alas.

NS
 
I would love to shoot one some day.

In some of my grandfathers things we cleaned up after he died were a few photos from his war time service. (He was a Bren gunner in Europe but refused to tell anything about his experience, only said he seen Holland than clamed up.)

One of the photos is him shooting a Boyes rifle.
 
koldt said:
Try the "I'll sell something to pay for this" story... It's got me a couple things.
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...or the "I don't get nuthin :( " while stamping your feet to the words as you say them. Mind you, that never really worked for my daughter. She was 3, and wanted one of those $1.25 suckers at the supermarket check out. Of course, standing there in her OshKosh outfit and shoes, she had little credibility and caused a lot of amusement to those around us.


Personally, when presented with the chances to buy the unobtainable, I usually make it work. I even sold my all matching Canadian LB Sniper to finance a special gun purchase.
 
Thre part Boys Rifle training film

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50BMG... go make a sammich :p
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Those training films are great!

Does anyone have any links to similar training films for other small arms of the Allied-forces?
 
I did fire one in .55 cal many years ago from the prone position, It pushed me bask at least one foot.

Now for a couple of stories;

We had a guy buy one and the muzzle brake was not attached at the time. Not knowing what those silly washers were for, he screwed the brake all the way down. This left the flat brake with the holes vertical. He fired it on a GRAVEL berm! :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

War story; Fired at an Italian tankette. Round went through the front, through the driver, through the engine, and out the back:eek:
 
The BOYES Anti Tank rifle was just like its contemporaries at the start of WWII. Simple bolt action rifles firing solid bullets. Then the tanks got much thicker quite quickly and there was no battlefield reason to have them in the front lines. But, some units did keep theirs. There are a few photos of Universal Carriers with Boyes rifles, probably used as long range precision rifles.

As for the size of the soldiers, they were a whole head shorter than today's generation. Just look at the veterans marching at Remembrance Day. They weren't 10 feet tall and strong as oxen, just ordinary fellows of the times. We were much much better fed as children than many of them were. Reenactors have lots of small uniforms to choose from, but few large sizes were ever made.
 
I know of two right now one in the 705 and the other in the 905. The 705 is owned by an armourer buddy is canadian is still .55 but the barrel was damaged at one point and had to be shortened a small amount. Other than that its beautiful. No bipod and leather on the buttpad needs work. If someone even offered him half of what CS is asking for theres I,m sure he'd consider it. He may have left for afganistan though this week, and Rob if your heading back to that part of the world pm me and I'll give you his contact info if you want. You guys can talk shop and dodge mortars at the same time at the Timmy's.

The other one was owned by a collector who is a contact of the guy above. He had a british one and was selling it for $1500 or so. He though passed away in the spring and you'd be dealing with his wife. I dont have the name of the guy but my contact does.

Happy hunting.
 
kind of regret telling everyone now, next time got to remind myself to keep my mouth shut lol:nest:

apparently this guy though was one of the old time collectors you hear so much about in folklore, he apparently had everything, I want my buddy to approach the wife so she doesnt just give it to the OPP for meltdown.

At least she can make some money, he estimated about 200 grand in stuff

ah christ there I go again:nest:
 
Those training films were pretty funny, as well as being instructive.:)

I would NOT have wanted to be the poor SOB having to shoot it, though. Even with the 38 lbs 7 oz fully loaded weight, the recoil reducer on the muzzle, the buffer spring, and the recoil pad on the stock, the recoil had to hurt!! :eek:

I don't even want to THINK about carrying it, with the full kit and ammo, any distance.:redface:
 
shredder said:
Those training films were pretty funny, as well as being instructive.:)

I would NOT have wanted to be the poor SOB having to shoot it, though. Even with the 38 lbs 7 oz fully loaded weight, the recoil reducer on the muzzle, the buffer spring, and the recoil pad on the stock, the recoil had to hurt!! :eek:

I don't even want to THINK about carrying it, with the full kit and ammo, any distance.:redface:
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Think of the poor SOB who has to carry it during an advance to contact.
 
stencollector said:
Here is one you don't see everyday: A Boys anti tank rifle listed at collector's source. The price would weed out all but the truly devoted.

The gun is converted to 50 cal (as so many of them are, mine is too) and a few liberties have been taken with her, like the ommision of the barrel trunnion and the installation of a scope rail. Barrel looks a bit heavy for the rifle as well, likely it is a bit nose heavy in it's present configuration. But all things aside, still a very uncommon (and cool) rifle.
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Does the conversion to .50 make it less desirable? Isn't that like taking an
all matching No4Mk1(T) and converting it to 8mm Jap, or an all matching K98 8mm and converting it to 0.303 ? To me it ain't the same once its been Bubba-Bubbed and Humped.
 
Maybe so, but even if you DO have one, where will you find .55 cal ammo for it??? IDK if even .55 cal bullets are available, much less dies for reloading.

At least .50 BMG ammo is available, albeit expensive.
 
MapleSugar said:
I'd really love to have one of those in .50 BMG, and in a southpaw configuration.

Oh yeah, and a few million dollars, so I could afford it and the ammo to feed it.
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Can't help you with the left handed Boys, but I CAN help you with a left handed 50BMG rifle. I build them in both right and left hand configurations.
Still over $6k though. But much nicer to shoot than the Boys.
I can not figure out why those Boys rifles recoil so fiercely, I have shot a couple and even the 1s I have converted to 50 cal are nastier to shoot than my own 50s.
The PTRD 14.5 and 20mm Lahti are also much tamer to fire.:confused:
 
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