Indians For Guns

hi guys can anyone identify this rifle?

Well, its definitely a sporterised SMLE... don't tell me this is a done up RFI .315!!

Vishosingh,

There is 'PEERLESS' stamped on the floor plate

RFI .315 rifle

Observations :-

1. A beauty !!

2. Lovely walnut stock with very nice grain flow.

3. Tapered Barrel

4. Monte carlo stock , good checkering and a nice recoil pad.

5. Nickled trigger, bolt and partly action too.

6. Powder coated and not blued.

7. Third picture has some numbers etched on the chamber similar to IOF style.

8. There is a metal strip around the wrist just underneath the bolt, very much like RFI .315.

9. Near sight is similar to RFI .315 too

My guess :-

RFI .315 with a new custom made stock.

Can't think of the fellow's name right now, but there is a smith in Ferlach who is making them up in .405 Winchester and .444 Marlin. And I think that's what it is. I'll take one of each. Goes to show that with enough love and hard work you can turn a sow's ear into a silk purse. Cheers.

Now that is very nice.

RFI .315 with new sights,new stock,integral magazine,button release magazine floor plate,new trigger guard, hot blued(the grainy surface is because of the how the metal is finished),re-machined receiver and slicked up bolt.

Vishosingh,am I right

Who so ever did it has turned a Turkey out of a Buzzard. The question is would it taste like a Turkey too?
Marksman

marksman";p="54237 wrote: Who so ever did it has turned a Turkey out of a Buzzard. The question is would it taste like a Turkey too?
Marksman

Guess it would depend a lot on what you "feed it"...

penpusher";p="54208 wrote: Vishosingh,

There is 'PEERLESS' stamped on the floor plate

RFI .315 rifle

Now how in the world did penpusher see the stamping on the bottom of the floorplate? Magic, eh?

Cheers!
Abhijeet

OK.. Let me take a wild shot at this.
Is this the IOF 30.06 rifle, yet to be released. Maybe some one (a very lucky one) has had the chance to spruce up some parts on a sample piece?
The sights do look similar, and so does the band between the trigger & the bolt; and so does the shape of the butt...
Its the magazine part and the bolt head thats seen customization

for god sake spill the beans

mundaire";p="54268 wrote:Now how in the world did penpusher see the stamping on the bottom of the floorplate? Magic, eh?

Does anyone need a bigger hint than this?

TenX";p="54271 wrote: OK.. Let me take a wild shot at this.
Is this the IOF 30.06 rifle

I dont think it is a IOF 30.06. Reasons being :-

1. 30.06 has a butter knife bolt handle. Why would anyone want to change it?

2. 30.06 has a two piece stock which clearly the firearm in question hasn't.

best,
RP.

The rifle in question has a two piece stock.

i guess its a 315 with a modified magazine