Interesting markings on a No.32 scope

[Warren]

Actually, it is an L1A1 scope from an L42 unit.
I cannot ever remember seeing a turret marked this way in the hundreds of 32 scopes I have handled.
It it appears to be lightly embossed into the brass and not a home made job that I can see.
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[Roy W]

Private engraving. I have seen tipped, paint and I have little white stickers on mine to remind me during a comp.

[Roger Payne]

Yes, I would think it most likely the work of a private owner. Neat job all the same!

[Warren]

The rifle and scope have only had one private owner ...the current one.
It is one of the Navy Arms L42 that came into the country years ago.
It is a professional job, well done and has been there for a long time.
Still stymied....it was partially under a coat of Suncorite as well.

[ColinA]

I.M.H.O.
That is not engraving, there do not seem to be any tool marks. Either from a hand graver or a rotary tool on a pantograph.
From the OP's post, too early for laser engraving.

Are they stick on letters of some kind, showing through the Suncorite?
When magnified they do appear to be raised, but that may be an illusion.

[Brian B]

The lettering is in two different fonts as well.

[Roger Payne]

This is one of those enigmas that we could discuss until the cows come home & still not really know who did it - unless the fellow that did or one of his mates decides to chime in! I don't think the 'customisation' makes much difference to its desirability or value one way or the other. It's a L1A1 & they are desirable, period. If it was an approved mod we would have seen more like it. Maybe a service end user did it, or persuaded his local tame Instrument Tech to do it for him..........but we'll never know for sure.......& I gather there are rules concerning unauthorised mods to Her Maj's property.

[Roger Payne]

Just had a closer look at the drum & it looks to me like the letters are no deeper than the thickness of the black paint. Could someone have stripped the paint off, applied stencils, repainted & then removed the stencils? Again, even if that is the case, it only tells us 'how' not 'who' or 'when'.....

[Peter Laidler]

I would say not a military job. On the sniper courses, certain things were drummed into you almost akin to masonic rote. The clicks from stop to zero ON YOUR RIFLE, and then he clicks to 10......., 2333456 and so on, that I can reel off even today. In fact, some of them could and would confuse the clicks with their army numbers. Especially if they were from that number range. The other that you can reel off in your sleep....., or nightmares, was the formulae C=D+R which says CLOCKWISE moves the GRAT Down and Right.......

These things were taught so that you could adjust even in half light which is a REALLY good time to get s couple of hits in - as the light is fading because you get a couple of hits on a couple of mundane crunchies going about their business, it's light enough to cover a muzzle flash and dark enough to conceal your hide. Mustn;t get tooooo macabre

Oh, and the other was treat the grat as a FORESIGHT. Foresight INTO the error, (and conversely, Backsight OUT of the error) There, a quick zeroing lesson for you all............

Nope, anyone who passed the course would know this although it wasn't unknown for then to scratch the top of the drum or write inside the lens cap

[Surpmil]

Someone playing about with a laser engraver? Two different fonts, and nothing else is as precise.

"Turn right to move MPI right" seems like an easy way to remember. "Turn right to add height" for the range drum?