I am pleased to have obtained a contemporary account of the Overbury meeting, where the superb BSA was presented as a prize. Here are some pictures of a totally superb B.S.A Improved Model B, that was presented by BSA, to the winner of a shooting contest in 1907.Įdit: This wonderful description of an eventful day of competition, in which Field Marshall Earl Roberts personally presented the air rifle below to the winning shooter, is kindly provided by John M: The patent is here, as described by the late Dennis Commins:Ī superb presentation grade B.S.A Improved Model B Could there have once been a wood forestock attached here? There are two strange holes (tapped?) drilled into each side of the lower part of the cylinder just above the cocking link slot. The clean lines of the production model have been lost and a strange, alien device grafted onto its back.
On the other hand, it seems to be a high price to pay for a slightly higher rate of fire and perhaps the advantage of not having to reload in very cold conditions. On the one hand you have to admire the ingenuity of its repeating mechanism, the fantastic quality of the workmanship and presumably - I wasn't able to verify this, unfortunately - its capacity to fire several shots without reloading. It's the sort of thing that gives rise to mixed emotions. The mechanism was patented in 1944 by John Maxwell Ball. 22 cal self-loading repeater is in the collection of a UK friend and he kindly agreed to the pics here being posted.