RB2 Stutzen Carbine. 25

[piggy589]

A brief article on collecting in the latest BASC magazine features the author using one of the BSA underlevers,complete with a silencer.

Would that rank along side hens teeth for rarity?

[Airsporterman]

A brief article on collecting in the latest BASC magazine features the author using one of the BSA underlevers,complete with a silencer.

Would that rank along side hens teeth for rarity?

Yep! Possibly even rarer than that!

ASM

[Blackrider]

Bugger !
Thought you were selling one ! Was going to "Bite yer Hand off" !

[Blackrider]

Er, I should say now I've come back down to earth, yes, I've recently seen the article in the said Mag !

[piggy589]

Bugger !
Thought you were selling one ! Was going to "Bite yer Hand off" !

Seems you're not alone,I briefly owned a .25 Rotary Breech Carbine some years ago.

Traded it in with a cheshire dealer and went back a few months later with a view to buying it back.

He denied knowing where it had gone,his own collection I suspect .

[Gareth W-B]

Thought you were selling one ! Was going to "Bite yer Hand off" !

Ditto.

[flogger]

As i have said before, i own a rb2 stutzen which i bought from john knibbs years ago, it is in orig carton with all the bits and pieces in mint condition.John collected it from the factory for me,it is a .25cal. and the second one off the production line.
The serial no is 1001.They started at 1000.Talking to a bsa man years later he said knibbs should not have taken 1001 as they wanted it for themselves,to late now..The orig. receipt of £182. 1992.it is right up there on the legal 11.5ftlbs.
incidently the serial no of WT 01001 equates to a .177 in knibbs tables a .25 should be AWR.unless i am wrong .
[ John M. help]. Have had lots of offers for it but Mathew my nephew from MJL.militaria has his name on, i used to let him shoot it at times when he was but a young lad. Roly.

[flogger]

As i have said before, i own a rb2 stutzen which i bought from john knibbs years ago, it is in orig carton with all the bits and pieces in mint condition.John collected it from the factory for me,it is a .25cal. and the second one off the production line.
The serial no is 1001.They started at 1000.Talking to a bsa man years later he said knibbs should not have taken 1001 as they wanted it for themselves,to late now..The orig. receipt of £182. 1992.it is right up there on the legal 11.5ftlbs.
incidently the serial no of WT 01001 equates to a .177 in knibbs tables a .25 should be AWR.unless i am wrong .
[ John M. help]. Have had lots of offers for it but Mathew my nephew from MJL.militaria has his name on, i used to let him shoot it at times when he was but a young lad. Roly.

P.S. i wonder what is worth on the open market any ideas.

[piggy589]

The RB2 I had wasn't actually marked for calibre,a brief phone call to Mr Knibbs confirmed that as such it was definitely a big bore gun.

[flogger]

[QUOTE=piggy589;7123162]The RB2 I had wasn't actually marked for calibre,a brief phone call to Mr Knibbs confirmed that as such it was definitely a big bore gun.[/Q

Sounds a bit as if vague to me. roly.

[piggy589]

All I can say is a .22 pellet slid through the breech and out of the muzzle.

By contrast a .25 rhino fitted nicely and produced a consistent 11.4ft/lbs.

[flogger]

going up.

[JB101]

[QUOTE=flogger;7123526]

The RB2 I had wasn't actually marked for calibre,a brief phone call to Mr Knibbs confirmed that as such it was definitely a big bore gun.[/Q

Sounds a bit as if vague to me. roly.

May be of info but a super sport in .25 that I have is not marked for calibre either but serial No prefix confirmed it.

Regards
James

[mrgeoff]

A RB2 Stutzen Carbine sure looks a nice thing, how much would one of these set me back in a more avaliabe .22 cal?

[piggy589]

For anyone who's interested, there's a full length version for sale on flea adz.