Hi all,

This morning I was reviewing some of my airgun stuff,stored on my computer. amongst the many pictures and documents that I have, I came across a BSA published manual (originally posted on this site by David (aka Troubledshooter), detailing the correct loading procedure for the BSA underlever air rifle of the day. Now I guess that this document dates from around 1906/7, as the BSA shown on the cover seems to lack the strengthening fences on the bayonet underlever.

Here is the front cover of the document, showing a BSA Air Rifle on the cover.

http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/h...d3e8e56_ga.jpg

Now I ran though each of the pages, detailing the correct cocking and loading procedure for the rifle.

here are a couple of pages as an example

http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/h...44fb609_ga.jpg

http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/h...70fe175_md.jpg

Nothing unusual there you might say........ Well I agree

However a couple of pages further on I noticed the trigger block and trigger guard arrangement of the gun shown is totally unlike any other BSA underlever that I have ever seen

It seems to be similar in shape to the Greener designed one featured on the Lanes Musketeer Air rifle, however not exactly the same?

Here is the picture showing the unusual trigger block, trigger guard and trigger profile

http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/h...0bc000c_md.jpg

now my question is quite simply this. Have any of you seen a similar trigger guard/trigger block arrangement on a pre WW1 BSA underlever before?

I for one have never seen this before, and I have never heard mention of this arrangement before.

Is this new to BSA collecting science ????? or has someone spotted this before?


Any comments most welcome


All the best

Lakey