Talk to me about webley supertarget military contract rifles.

[harry mac]

Apart from the Theobens, the only airguns I know of in significant use by the British AF are the old, now retired, Cadet Meteor and the current cadet BSA PCP.

You can add the Anschutz 335 to that. We had about 10 of them in HQ Sqn Arms Store when I was based in Hohne. Although not "adopted" per se. I think most units would get permission to purchase air rifles locally, as the need arose. Certainly at regular army level, they would have been purchased as club guns, rather than being used for any kind of "training".
I think only the cadets actually use air rifles as "training rifles".
If it does have a Naval connection, I strongly suspect the MkIII in the original post would have been purchased by a ship or a "ship", for use in a unit shooting club.

[greenwayjames]

The Royal Navy had accomodation and training ships, usually de-commissioned warships. Perhaps it was one of a batch ordered for use by cadets on board? In which case finding the name of the ship might be a useful investigation.

[hwtyger]

May be a self-made (collected from sec hand parts) rifle
Dont recollect any STs with scoperails. Only normal mk3s.
I do think there were early ones without theST name on it?
Army is only related to the Osprey ST. I think seller relates to this as both the mk3 and Osprey were both sold with 'normal' anschutz sight as well
If not sure its a ST, I would buy it

[chieffool]

May be a self-made (collected from sec hand parts) rifle
Dont recollect any STs with scoperails. Only normal mk3s.
I do think there were early ones without theST name on it?
Army is only related to the Osprey ST. I think seller relates to this as both the mk3 and Osprey were both sold with 'normal' anschutz sight as well
If not sure its a ST, I would buy it

Do the serial numbers match on the metal and stock?

[Troubledshooter]

Does this rifle have the normal Mk.111 rear sight, or the dovetails for the fitting of such, as well as the dioptre sight, and is this a Parker hale 17b or 16m ?

[Unframed Dave]

Does this rifle have the normal Mk.111 rear sight, or the dovetails for the fitting of such, as well as the dioptre sight, and is this a Parker hale 17b or 16m ?

I'm now in Spain, so unable to view the gun for a couple of weeks.

Dave