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Every rifle tested would shoot into at least 2-1/2 minutes of angle with tailored handloads. The 6.5 Swedes would cut that in less than half and were the overachievers in the class. It is well worth noting that without exception, the best performance with all was with service weight bullets at service pressures and velocities. The old bald-heads running ordnance knew what was safest and most accurate because they worked hard and smart at finding it out. Respect that knowledge and be instructed thereby.

NO. 4 MARK 2

The old No. 4 Mark 2 .303 Brit was made at the Fazakerly Factory near Liverpool in February of 1950 and if it was ever issued it didn’t get shot much. It came with a short stock and a capricious performance that quickly earned it the name “Crazy Albert.” It was tantalizingly finicky, shooting 3 or 4 shots into a 2-½ or 3 inch group at 200 yards, then scattering the next 3 or 4 from 7 ring to 7 ring, high low, right, left – who the hell knows where next? – before settling down in the original group. A recurring skinned place on my forehead above my right eye was cured by the purchase and careful fitting of an “L” or long version of the issue stock.