Daryl, BSA rifles were fairly available (don't know how "common") here in the 1960s and 1970s. They sold a bolt action high-powered rifle in common US calibers that was neat and light and often equipped with a very Cutts-looking muzzle brake, partly to compensate for the recoil of the light rifle. Remember one of these on a turkey shoot line with me, a .308--man was that a barker! Seemed like great rifles for hunting, not much for prolonged paper punching. Don't know if they made the actions, but they were "short Mauser" type.
There are also generations of BSA .22s, some of quite unique design.
