Recent content by Retired Srage

Here's the chart for IDing manufacture date. My date code was on the bottom of the barrel see second picture. I can only assume all are. Mine was YB5, YB for 1973 and 5 for the inspector.

Or am I over thinking this.....?

My replacement shroud will be here Monday, so I'm cleaning the bolt up and oiling it so it'll be ready to go and I have a question on reassembly. There is a groove at the end of the bolt body, and a wing, per se, on the firing pin. Do I put the wing in the groove then rotate the cocking piece...

Sad thing is the last time the subject Parker-Hale drew blood was in 1976. It was prepped for a hunt in the early 1990's that ended up not happening.

Growing up in a household with strict military discipline, by the time I graduated high school, I was already trained to be a GI. In fact a few days after arriving at Basic, I figured it out, it was just like home, just a different dad now, but the same rules.

I read that FN supplied the bolts for the PH rifles. Is that erroneous information?

You beat by a few months, he went in after HS graduation in Jun 62. Irony for you though, my Basic Training start date was 9 Jan 1986, one day short of 24 years after you.

My dad did Aircraft Maintenance in the AF 62-88, my father in law did Weapons in the AF 72-92, I did Aircrew Life Support in the AF 86-08 and my bother did Combat Communications in the AF 96-16. Then my oldest did Legal Administration in the Marines 07-17. My dad worked on a few different birds...

I recently came into possession of a 1973 Parker Hale rifle in 270 Winchester. The rifle originally belonged to my dad. I believe ge got it while we were stationed at Mountain Home AFB, Idaho 1975-1977, as I don't recall seeing it with his other rifles while we were in Zaragoza AB Spain 72-75...

New guy from Panama City Florida, joined to learn more about a rifle I have, and see there are some PH Gurus on here. I'm retired Air Force, did almost 23 years before medical issues forced me into retirement. I'm a Military Surplus weapons collector at heart, but have a mix of milsurps and...