New Carrier Accessory

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Brad
The Brits left nothing out of whack when they engineer things. Since the Boys is not sitting level on the flat bracket, try it with the bipod folded into the window. It should sit more level. Unless the Bipod doesn't sit through the little window, I can't see any difference between placing the mk1 or the mk2 boys in this hole. I would suspect the straps would hold it in place.
The rifle just sits too nicely (with the usual british spare tolerance of .00001 inch) in there for it to be for anything else. Plus, with that mag pouch (once I expresspost it to you this week) mounted right there, ready to hold two Boys mags, it just has to be.


Gunner Mike: The Cdn Army/ Disney films on the Boys rifle are hosted on U-tube. There are three of them. I posted a link to them about 6 months back, or you can look in U-tube with search terms like anti-tank rifle.

Chris
I owned both the PTRD 14.5 and the PTRS 14.5 semi auto. Ammo is as hard to find as an honest politician. A friend out of saskatchewan has been reloading the stuff, but with the export restrictions out of the US, it is impossible to get anything, including primers, cases and bullets, if it is 50 cal or over.
Besides, if you ever get to look close at a PTRD or a PTRS, you will find there is no comparison to a Boys. As to firing them with 50 cal, there are plenty of 50 cal rifles, even here in Canada, that the savings of trying to convert one of these really isn't worth it. Wolverine supplies was going to try and convert a bunch of the ptrds a couple years ago, but with the pressed in barrels, it was not going to be too simple.

Tony
Interesting methods on the 50 cals reloading. Even the once common 50 cal ammo here in Caanda is starting to get pretty dear...as I mentioned earlier the USofA won't let us import any of the components, and our own government would rather burn the stuff than sell it to civilians. We keep hoping for some South African surplus to eventually show up, but with all the UN anti-gun crap that keeps getting implemented, it is getting less and less likely we will ever see them.