I wonder if anyone can come up with a likely reason for my problem here.
I have just taken delivery from Oz of a Victoria Francotte Cadet rifle ('Francotte Patent' roundel) in 297/230 to complement my BSA .310 Cadet and my BSA No. 6 and 12/15. I am in the UK. A few things need to be done to fix it up but I was prepared for that and they are easily do-able. The woodwork and metalwork are in very good to excellent condition, the wood particularly - hardly marked. My disappointment is that the barrel thread does not properly register with the receiver thread. Though the threads match. By which I mean that if the barrel is fully turned home then the sights end up 1/3rd over to the left and of course the extractor cut-out is correspondingly displaced from the vertical. Yet the BSA barrel is correctly marked 230L and dated 1907 and has the correct rear and front sights. ...
I have just taken delivery from Oz of a Victoria Francotte Cadet rifle ('Francotte Patent' roundel) in 297/230 to complement my BSA .310 Cadet and my BSA No. 6 and 12/15. I am in the UK. A few things need to be done to fix it up but I was prepared for that and they are easily do-able. The woodwork and metalwork are in very good to excellent condition, the wood particularly - hardly marked. My disappointment is that the barrel thread does not properly register with the receiver thread. Though the threads match. By which I mean that if the barrel is fully turned home then the sights end up 1/3rd over to the left and of course the extractor cut-out is correspondingly displaced from the vertical. Yet the BSA barrel is correctly marked 230L and dated 1907 and has the correct rear and front sights. ...