Sporterizing is especially hard to take when it is done to a rifle like this.
WWII Unicorn rifle
I was in a gun shop when I found another No.4 with a cut down forend but everything else intact. Grumbling about folk who had hacksaws, I took a look. @#$%^&***!!!! The rifle was a Maltby built gun that was part of an unusual mismarked batch. They were marked as a No.4 Mk1* when they were clearly good old Mk1s. To make matters worse, it had been upgraded with the Mk2 trigger and remarked No.4 Mk1*/3 as if it were a real Mk1*. The conversion had been done using the original forend modified to take the Mk2 trigger instead of new Mk2 wood. I was fit to be tied.
