About that video. I owned a real Lee Enfield #4 MkII rifle which was the last Lee Enfield version made and mine was made in 1955 at the arms factory in Fazakerley. It had been stored at an armory in Ireland for many years and never issued. I bought it as unissued surplus and took it out of the paper wrapping and cosmoline myself. It had the more rare Canadian maple stock and was a real looker with the contrasting light maple stock and dark metalwork. What really got my attention was the fact that the first three shots I ever fired from the rifle from a bench rest at 100 yards were all in the bullseye. I never touched the sights as it came perfectly sighted with the commercial Winchester ammo I was using. I paid $225 for the rifle in 1995 and sold it about 20 years later for $700. I used the money to buy a new CZ 550 in 7x57mm Mauser on sale at $100 off with such a nice looking Turkish walnut stock that a guy at the rifle range asked me, "Is that rifle a Sako"? I replied, "No, but it shoots like one". Got me another tack driver after I had it glass bedded. So that initial $225 investment eventually wound up getting me a really nice hunting rifle, and in 7x57mm Mauser which is usually very underrated by American hunters, but an excellent long range medium large game cartridge. I named it "Karamojo" after William Dalrymple Maitland Bell that brought much fame to the 7x57mm Mauser as an African big game cartridge.
As far as BSA's big surprise goes, it would be a big surprise to me if they started making more powerful air rifles that fit into the American market for rifles of .25 caliber and up. Daystate, FX, Brocock and a few others are far ahead of BSA these days in supplying seriously powerful big bore airguns to the American market. It's not that BSA can't do it, as the Lonestar .25 once proved, but they just haven't wanted to do it. The success of FX and Daystate in the US market should have given them a wake up call long before now.
