4 T rear sight mods.

To continue with a thread that started a while ago and a number times before that.
I have just been playing with...... yes you got it right my No4 T.
It is a Mk 1 Maltby so the bolt head lifts up at rhe rear just infront of the sight mount to remove it. So I could pull out the bolt if the sight had a bit removed from the bottom with out taking off the scope.
BUT has any one tried to re fit the bolt back into the MK 1 with the scope fitted.
It is just near impossible to do.
Now the MK 1 * would work as the bolt head is moved up wards at the chamber end and fingers can manipulate it to reseat with the scope fitted.
Peter could this be the reason the mod to the sight was never made a requirement ?

All I can say is that I have removed and replaced bolts many, many times with modified backsights fitted. What's the problem? Getting it past the backsight axis pin block or sliding it forwards under the slide? As I remember doing it a zillion times, you just slide the bolt in, slightly lifting the backsight a tad as you do. Then use your finger at the face of the bolt head to rotate it round, press down on the top of the bolt head to compress the bolt head catch spring - and slide it forwards.

Maybe you're being a bit finger sensitive read!

Yep it can be done.
Not easy but may be with pratice and smaller fingers I could be quicker.
But I would not wantto do it in a hurry being shot at.
But I am not so ......
I will just take the scope off the MK 1 and not on the MK 1 *.
But I still think and interesting observation.

Had the modifcation done to my Longbranch MK 1* and it is just as Peter says,
but it is harder on the MK 1.
Glad I had it don.