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madcratebuilder
 Post subject: BO
PostPosted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 6:37 am 
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I have watching for the right (cheap) M48BO to come along and recently won this on GB.

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Branko's book suggests that the BO was built from 1956-1957. This would mean it should have a stamped floor plate and trigger housing. This rifle I bought was a milled floor plate and trigger housing. I have talked to another collector that was the same V prefix serial number BO with milled parts. Conclusion is early M48's were scrubbed to BO specs to fill early contracts.
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HerrMesser
 Post subject: Re: BO
PostPosted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 9:30 am 
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Nice. You can check the front ring to see if it has been scrubbed. The normal size is 1.400".

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 Post subject: Re: BO
PostPosted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 9:03 am 
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Thanks HerrMesser, good info! :grin:
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