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Info Call: Barnett Ten-X Rifles

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I have recently purchased a Barnett Ten-X Target Rifle (Photo Attached)
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I have searched the internet and assembled a spread sheet of all of the examples I could find of this relatively rare British target rifle of the late '40's/early '50s. It is estimated that only about 250 of these rifles were made and I have found about two dozen of them. For more info on these underlever bolt action rifles see this site:

The Barnett Ten-X Target Rifles of the late 1940s and 1950s

Historic Arms Resource Centre facility for British and Commonwealth Enfield and other Miniature calibre training and small-bore TARGET RIFLES (BSA- Birmingham Small Arms Co.), conversion units and accessories with representation of other nations' training rifles, plus Postal League competitions...
www.rifleman.org.uk
If you have one, I would be interested in photos. especially of the receiver/barrel to add it to my spreadsheet. I am also willing to share the spreadsheet, understanding that it is a work in progress. The info I am tabulating is:

Serial Number Date of InfoSourceWeb LinkBarrelSightsLoading PlatformLogo TypeComments
 
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PJKEUHLEN said:
I have recently purchased a Barnett Ten-X Target Rifle (Photo Attached)
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I have searched the internet and assembled a spread sheet of all of the examples I could find of this relatively rare British target rifle of the late '40's/early '50s. It is estimated that only about 250 of these rifles were made and I have found about two dozen of them. For more info on these underlever bolt action rifles see this site:

The Barnett Ten-X Target Rifles of the late 1940s and 1950s

Historic Arms Resource Centre facility for British and Commonwealth Enfield and other Miniature calibre training and small-bore TARGET RIFLES (BSA- Birmingham Small Arms Co.), conversion units and accessories with representation of other nations' training rifles, plus Postal League competitions...
www.rifleman.org.uk
If you have one, I would be interested in photos. especially of the receiver/barrel to add it to my spreadsheet. I am also willing to share the spreadsheet, understanding that it is a work in progress. The info I am tabulating is:

Serial NumberDate of InfoSourceWeb LinkBarrelSightsLoading PlatformLogo TypeComments
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Howdy,

This could be interesting!

Unfortunately, I cannot see the picture.

Have you shot yours?

Take care,

Greg
 
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Greg,

I definitely don't have any actions-only cataloged. If you still have it I would appreciate SN, whether it has sprung or solid loading platform, and whether it has no Ten-X marking on the receiver, the older simple mark, or the later more elaborate seal showing locations.

Thanks,

Phil
 
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Howdy Phil,

WOW! What an OUTSTANDING write-up!

You found more info, by FAR, than I did when I bought my action years ago. I had seen some of your info, but nowhere NEAR that much.

Some folks may balk at downloading the file, but it is WORTH it.

That clearly took a long time to research the info and to put it in such a logical order. Dunno what you do for a living, but you write well and I suspect you have something to do with engineering since you go into detail such as that.

I love history, so putting all that info together really appealed to me.

When I bought my action it was my intent to learn how to build a rifle with it.......and I never got around to it.

By all means, shoot that rifle and give us a write up about it.

Fine looking, and very interesting rifle, thanks for doing that write-up!

Take care,

Greg
 
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Greg,

Not yet... but looks promising. My first range session was shortened by failures to extract from every ammo I tried (RWS/Eley/Lapua), even though I had checked the bore clean. Got it home & had to really work over the chamber to get it to operate well. Headed back to the range when the weather is out of hi 30's/lo 40's and raining. Range report to follow.
 
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Finally made it to the range today for the first time with this rifle after the wrist repair. Definitely suboptimal shooting conditions for diopter sights @ 50 yards... wind 8-15 MPH swirling, front rest set up for 3" wide flat bottom bench rest stock, arbitrary selection of ammo/lot, & shooter with pronounced tremor. Here are the 3 best groups of 8 shot in a vintage smallbore match. Nothing to write home about compared to the Tanner or Win 52E I usually shoot in this match.

One interesting observation was that the chamber seems to be cut for the shorter Eley brass. Longer Lapua and RWS match ammo cases would chamber & shoot, but rarely extract, while the Eley Tenex was flawless every time. I have seen this with an old Baity Falcon that I have as well.

Next steps will be to evaluate different lots of Eley Tenex, Eley Match, and RWS R50sc across different speeds (in better conditions!). As we are in mid-season for our busy club smallbore matches (minimum of 5 per month), I don’t see that happening soon. Will post as info becomes available.

Phil

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