What type of No 4 sniper do I have?

[Salt Flat]

Not too many people here like the quality of the repro scopes. Really interesting though, that you have the original shipping box and provenance. The No4 Mk1 (T) folks here will be on this by morning, What a find!
Here's a link to a similar BSA No4 (T) discussed on this forum: https://www.milsurps.com/showthread.php?t=48931
Salt Flat

[GeeRam]

The interesting thing is the early 1944 production block, on a B prefix, so a long way into Mk.2 scope use, and yet the butt appears to have a very earlier Mk.1 scope number...

[Surpmil]

The interesting thing is the early 1944 production block, on a B prefix, so a long way into Mk.2 scope use, and yet the butt appears to have a very earlier Mk.1 scope number...

There's a good reason for that: they weren't producing a stream of No.4(T)s at H&H, they were producing a trickle.

So while flapping their wings about REL and Long Branch and their No32 scope production, "send a man over to help" etc. etc., there were thousands of Mk.I and Mk.II scopes sitting in store somewhere in the UK waiting to be fitted to rifles. I deduced that from records originally found by Clive Law, but here's some more proof: a W. Watson scope No. 1321, produced in 1941, getting fitted to a rifle made in 1944!

https://www.milsurps.com/showthread....l=1#post362178

And as we can all see, that rifle hasn't been so much as shot since it left the custody of the MoD, in fact the condition of the wood and metal suggests it was never issued at all after conversion.