BSA “Sportsman – Five” .22LR Magazine
BSA “Sportsman – Five” .22LR Magazine
BSA “Sportsman – Five” .22LR Magazine. BSA began in June 1861 in the Gun Quarter, Birmingham, England. It was formed by a group of fourteen gunsmith members of the Birmingham Small Arms Trade Association specifically to manufacture guns by machinery. They were encouraged to do this by the War Office which gave the BSA gunsmiths free access to technical drawings and to the War Office’s Board of Ordnance’s Royal Small Arms factory at Enfield. New machinery developed in the USA installed at Enfield had greatly increased its output without needing more skilled craftsmen. This new machinery brought to Birmingham the principle of the interchangeability of parts.
The first ‘Sportsman’ rifle, introduced in 1947, was single shot, and the Sportsman Five repeating model came onto the market but one year later, in 1948; this was the five-round box-magazine version.
These rare magazines are in excellent condition and full working order.
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BSA "Sportsman - Five" .22LR Magazine
John Knibbs, in his comprehensive book of BSA civilian rifle production*, describes the Sportsman Fifteen as "perhaps the most successful .22 calibre sporting rifle ever produced by BSA".
He quotes the total production figures for the Sportsman 5 to be 58,534 between 1948 and 1955
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