BSA collectors?

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Deer hunting this weekend, and elk season for me this year is dec 21-jan 20. Gonna be a good one!
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Now you're talking, time to do some freezer filling !
Thanks for starting a very enjoyable thread and to all who contributed..... we need more good reading threads like this...jmo..
 
I have an early 50's majestic featherweight deluxe in 30-06 that I inherited from my father. The action is butter smooth and with the hollowed stock and scalloped reciever it makes for nice, light in the hand hiking rifle. I wouldn't think it weighs much over 6 lbs. I think they're very nice rifles, I'd love to find one in 222 or 22 hornet.
 
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Baribal said:
Well, Mike, I am not sure if you were referring to me, but you repeated exactly what I said.


Anyhow, Flying Pig, les us know how go your future experiences!
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Sorry, didn't notice the past tense in your post. Thought you meant prices nowadays. Anyway that is a good thing as guys in the know can pick up super quality rifles for low prices.
 
Now worries there. I 100% agree with what you say. As I said, these are above average quality rifles for sure.
 
Copied from another website -
"BSA History –
BSA Hunters were made 1953-55. Only chambered in 222 or 22 Hornet. Early models had no recoil hole in the rear scope base, and mid 1955 BSA stopped engraving “Hunter” on the receiver.

1954 – 59, changed to the Regent, a short action similar to the Hunter, only chambered in 222 and 22 Hornet.
Viscount, a med action chambered in 243, 7x57, 300 savage and 308
Imperial, a long action chambered in 270, 30.06, and 375H&H
This action length was marketed for export out of the UK as the “Royal”
Emperor, a reinforced long action, chambered only in 458 Win.

In 1959 they changed to the Majestic, similar looking to the previous models, but only in Med and Long action, and push feed rather than controlled feed.

Later came the Monarch and CF2."
 
The entire group of BSA CRF rifles from 1953- 1959 were known as the "Royal" Line. The early short actions were the first on the market followed by the medium and standard lengths. The medium and standard lengths had improved gas-handling designs over the short actions in case of a ruptured primer. The standard length "Royals" were only produced in the very late 1950's before being replaced with their push-feed cousins. The featherweights in 30-06 with their 22" barrels and muzzle porting were well ahead of their time as even today it is hard to find a wood-stocked rifle that comes in at ~ 6 1/2 pounds.

My featherweight is still 8 pounds scoped even after being re-barreled with a 24" tube.

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That's a beautiful rifle ! Looks like it just came out of the box.
Awesome pictures, Thanks for sharing.
Judging from the amount of snow in the pictures you probably wouldn't believe me if I said that I cut my lawn today..... for the last time till March 1st...
 
Ha ha yeah may as well be a world away from us here! We hit the deep freeze hard all of last week. It got as cold as -29*C. To start it off we got 8"+ of snow.

Thanks a bunch for the compliments guys. As Baribal told me when I paid him for it, there was no way I could be unhappy with this one.
 
My fill of BSA were a .22 LR single shot , an incredibly accurate rifle, a 1955 Gold Star 350 CC acquired in mid eighties and finally a 1958 Golden Flash 650 CC which I rode for 4 years in early nineties. My dad had a BSA 12ga shotgun which I shot quite a few times as a child.
If I could get my hands on I would again buy a Golden Flash also looking for a BSA Royal in 7X57.
 
Very glad you like it so much, my firend. As you saw, I try to stay conservative in my description...
You almost makes me jealous!

1957 ad for the "Big Game" line;

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1958 ad for the "Royal" line;

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From the 1962 Parker-Hale Catalog;

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That's a beauty of a rifle flying pig!

I've got a monarch in .270. I got it for dirt cheap. The stock was beat to hell so I shortened it to fit me and refinished it. I threw a vortex 2.5-10x44 on it and am running Barnes 130grain TTSX for everything and the gun is an absolute laser with this combo.

I only wish it had a detachable magazine instead of an internal mag.
 
Ah, BSA's, I love em all! As well as 1904, 1915, 1916 and 1917 No 1 rifles , a 1943 No 4 Mk 1 , and a 1950's Sportsman 10 22 Repeater, I also have a 1943 M20 military motorcycle, 1948 A7 500, 1970 441 Victor, and a 1969 Royal Star 500 motorcycles. Plus some assorted taps and dies made my BSA's tool division :) There will always be an England!!!
(That's my 1943 M20 on the left side of this pic)

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