Originally Posted by
Peter Laidler
It's the Ordnance Board who lay down the specification after issuing a GS requirement after listening to the UOR's Surpmil and not the MoD, WD or MoS. So I'm a bit perplexed as to whether someone has misread the spec - whoever's spec it was - regarding the iron sight being useable while the tele sight was fitted. Or if there was such an absurd requirement! After all, if it applied to that requirement, then I'm at a loss as to why it didn't apply to the No4T - and the later L42 and the later L96 and the later...........
We ALWAYS insist on a back-up sight. Apologies for being contrary but I would suspect that (and I haven't seen anything to the contrary.....) that the fore-endless rifle shot as badly as any other fore-endless No4 and regardless of the telescope fitted, barrel harmonics decrees that it's not how the part of the barrel the bullet has passed through is acting BUT how the part of the barrel that it has yet to pass through is acting