No. 4 MKI (T)

I am currently looking for a scope for my (T). I am thinking an original will be to expensive though. Is anyone reproducing them? Or is there another scope i could get that will look the part? If so where might I find one?

Not a true No.32 clone, but here's an older thread about ...

No 32 scope look a like. (click here)

Regards,
Badger

The Weaver K2.5 makes a nice looking clone.

Wasn't Pecar making a replica in the $600 range? Save your self a bunch of money and send me the rifle.

Ok that so isnt fair. I wish i had atleast the scope off one of those.

Who has the reproduction scope mount for the Mk1 (T)?

I bought mine from SARCO

I do not understand the hype & hysteria over 4T's - yes its nice to have one, its increasing in value and its part of the Enfield family history - but - if you want something special there are many other variations which were produced in such low quantities as to make the 4T look like mass production.

For "collectability" / Rarity give me an L42, an Enforcer, a No6 or a BSA No7 anytime.

Production figures :

No1 MkV Trials. RSAF Enfield manufactured 20,000 rifles.

No1 MkVI Trials RSAF Enfield manufactured 1000 rifles.

No4 Trials RSAF manufactured 2500 rifles

No4Mk1T & Mk1*T. Longbranch manufactured 1000, and Holland & Holland converted 23,000 rifles.

No5 Mk1 Fazakerly and BSA combined manufacture 250,000+

No6 Mk1 Lithgow manufactured 100 rifles

No6 Mk1/1 Lithgow manufactured 100 rifles

No7Mk1 BSA manufactured 2500 rifles

Cno7Mk1 Longbranch manufactured 20,000 rifles

No8 Fazakerly manufactured 15000 and BSA manufactured 2000 rifles

No9 Parker Hale manufactured 3000 rifles.

L39A1 RSAF Enfield manufactured 1500 rifles

The last Military Enfield L42A1 RSAF Enfield manufactured 1000.

The last Enfield – Enforcer manufactured by Enfield & Parker Hale. 767 rifles.

Not hype at all, at least in my case. I bought mine because a number 4T will shoot better than a standard No4 in most cases. I used it sans scope but with bayonet on Sunday in the HBSA Fixed Bayonet Competition - much good it being a 4T did me though. :(

When I bought it I was lucky enough to be offered a No32 and bracket at the same time, which fortunately I took because I use it in sniper/scoped comps as well.

Two rifles for the price of a bit more than one - at the time. :D

OK Alan I took the photo down. No hype intended.

Thats a great breakdown Alan, thanks, it's going in my files, for when I can say...I'll have one of everything on this list, lol...lotto fantasies...

I must admit to T lust, ever since reading war comics about anzacs at Tripoli and chasing Rommel through the desert. It lingers too because I like the idea of a tuned up sniper rifle, its very sexy to have Holland and Holland on a rifle I own, and I'm discovering that most sniper rifles don't seem to have been tuned, just a scope added to a regular rifle, which puts a T in a class of its own.

Joseph, For the fun of it I did another search of 'scopes suitable as a No.32 replacement. My primary concern is to replicate the (T) shooting experiance as closely as possible. I still think the K2.5 is the best choice and the K3 the second best choice based on price and availability. I looked for Red Star 'scopes and it looks like they're now known as NC Star.

Perhaps Peter or Brian can comment about using a mount not 'tuned' to the rifle WRT tightening and alignment.

Brad

I haven't ever set up a commercial scope on a No4 so I can't comment. But suffice it to say, the optical and mechanical principle of thye setting up (the centring and exact collimation of the scope and bore) are the same throughout.

Several years ago now I saw a LB/Lyman TP scope, supposedly matched, set-up. Clearly the scope and rifle were original and the scope bracket might (?) have been but something was definately amiss somewhere....., probably with the home made (?) rifle bracket part because to get it to hit the target at 100 yards, the graticle was very high and over to the left. Even when clicked down to 1,000 yards the tip of the grat was just about centred but still over to the left of course! But he wouldn't have it!

But once the seller had marked out, drilled, tapped and mounted the bracket, then sweated it into place over the drilled out and reamed to size locating pegs, there was no going back.........., even though he had the rear hole already in place.

Nobody had told them (the do'er and the stupid buyer) that there was no quick fix and no quick bolt-on job that will equate to a bit of common sense and what we call 'the bleedin obvious'. I told the fellow that if he undid the locktite and screws and removed the rifle bracket, at least he could rectify the ****-poor deflection error. But no, he wouldn't have it. This how it always was and presumably they ALL are! I checked of course with ours and they're not all like that, they're optically and mechanically perfect!

In fact, when I said words to the effect that it '........just feels optically wrong.....' he thought that and spoke to me as if I'd just fallen out of a tree.

Where were we...........? Ah, yes............... Just make sure that you use your loaf when you fit even a commercial scope and even more importantly, as I learned to my cost yesterday when fitting a new worktop to my work bench, measure twice and cut once