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Sportco was an Australian manufacturer of rifles and shotguns in Adelaide, South Australia, from 1947 until the early 1980s. Founded by Jack Warne, also known by its full name Sporting Arms Limited, began by manufacturing single shot 22LR rifles. Sportco purchased ex military Martini Cadet rifles from the Australian Government and converted them to both rimfire and centrefire calibres as well as rebarrelling Lee–Enfield rifles to .303/22 and .303/25. Sportco also sold ammunition under its own brand name that was manufactured by Riverbrand and Winchester Australia.

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rdfs:label	Sportco (en)
rdfs:comment	Sportco was an Australian manufacturer of rifles and shotguns in Adelaide, South Australia, from 1947 until the early 1980s. Founded by Jack Warne, also known by its full name Sporting Arms Limited, began by manufacturing single shot 22LR rifles. Sportco purchased ex military Martini Cadet rifles from the Australian Government and converted them to both rimfire and centrefire calibres as well as rebarrelling Lee–Enfield rifles to .303/22 and .303/25. Sportco also sold ammunition under its own brand name that was manufactured by Riverbrand and Winchester Australia. (en)
foaf:name	Sportco (en)
name	Sportco (en)
dcterms:subject	Defunct manufacturing companies of Australia Firearm manufacturers of Australia Defunct firearms manufacturers Manufacturing companies based in Adelaide Australian companies established in 1947
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Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	Canada Royal Small Arms Factory Borneo Rhodesia United States of America .222 Remington .222 Rimmed .22 Hornet .22 LR .303/22 .303/25 Great Britain Lee–Enfield Shotguns Single shot Australia Defunct manufacturing companies of Australia Winchester Repeating Arms Company Omark Model 44 Division of Adelaide Firearm manufacturers of Australia List of South Australian manufacturing businesses Rifle Gun barrel Defunct firearms manufacturers Manufacturing companies based in Adelaide Kimber Manufacturing Martini Cadet Martini–Henry Bolt action Australian companies established in 1947 Union of South Africa South Australia Pump-action New Zealand Semi-automatic rifle Semi-automatic shotgun 7.62mmx51mm Target shooting
Link from a Wikipage to an external page	http://www.sportco.org.au/ http://www.rifleman.org.uk/Sportco_Martini_rifle.htm
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defunct	1980.0 (second)
founded	in Adelaide, South Australia (en)
founder	Jack Warne (en)
hq location city	Division of Adelaide South Australia
hq location country	Australia
industry	Firearms (en) (en)
traded as	Sporting Arms Limited (en)
has abstract	Sportco was an Australian manufacturer of rifles and shotguns in Adelaide, South Australia, from 1947 until the early 1980s. Founded by Jack Warne, also known by its full name Sporting Arms Limited, began by manufacturing single shot 22LR rifles. Sportco purchased ex military Martini Cadet rifles from the Australian Government and converted them to both rimfire and centrefire calibres as well as rebarrelling Lee–Enfield rifles to .303/22 and .303/25. Soon they began producing their own designs of bolt action and 'Sportomatic' semi-automatic rifles as well as single shot shotguns followed by semi-automatic shotguns and pump-action rifles. They also started to export to Great Britain, Rhodesia, Borneo, South Africa, Canada, New Zealand and the United States of America. Sportco supplied the British military with a blow-back action self-loading training rifle with a ten-round capacity. Sold in Australia as the Model 71S the British dubbed it Rifle,L29A2. An example is to be found in the Enfield Pattern Room collection. Sportco also supplied Winchester with actions for their Model 320 10 shot bolt action repeater and Model 310 single shot. Sportco also sold ammunition under its own brand name that was manufactured by Riverbrand and Winchester Australia. Their longest lasting model was the Model 44 target rifle which would later would be known as the Omark Model 44 and would be produced by MAB Engineering when Sportco would close its doors. Sportco was sold to Omark Industries and shut its doors in the early 1980s. Jack Warne would later leave Australia for the United States and found Kimber of Oregon. (en)
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founding year	1947-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
location city	Division of Adelaide South Australia
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