Was looking at the Fulton s sute and saw the following sniper rifle:
F1998 BSA SMLE SNIPER RIFLE .303
Did enfield get purpose built with Ajacks?
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Was looking at the Fulton s sute and saw the following sniper rifle:
F1998 BSA SMLE SNIPER RIFLE .303
Did enfield get purpose built with Ajacks?
If that's a genuine Great War Sniper the drinks are on me!
Nothing more than a fantasy piece.
Cheers,
Simon.
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Originally Posted by tower06
Might be a rifle made up to qualify for club competition:
HBSA, LERA and other clubs usually have sniper matches with a class for "classic" snipers - ie WW1. As even repro No1 snipers are rare and expensive (e.g. with PPCo mount & scope, or Purdey/Aldis, etc), rifles are permitted "in the spirit of the original". This means any mount, and a scope of WW1 vintage. Given that the majority of 1890-1920 scopes are German, these are a common substitute.
Still a hideous looking setup..... I bet the cheekpiece makes no difference at all with that scope position...
With an objective lens the size that it appears to have it's hardly even in keeping with the era. It looks like something off Star Wars to me.....
ATB
I know a good cheekweld is difficult to achieve on WWI Sniper with the offset scope but that's ridiculous:yikes:. You'd need a neck like a Giraffe and a Loophole the size of a bucket:lol:.
Cheers,
Simon.
That was for sale at Bisley a few years back, it was on the stall outside of the NRA office.
I didn't think so either, but I figured one of the experts on here would know better.Quote:
Originally Posted by Simon
Any story behind it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Simon P
Ja, I saw it at Bisley a couple of years ago... got an earful of "story" from Fred the armourer who was trying to sell it... all vague, name-dropping stuff like "Lord Lovat" etc ... "before the war office provided a pattern"... "officers private purchase" ...er... I didn't have a can of bullshirt spray handy, so walked away.
.............and that fine piece of antiquety could have been yours.......you disbeliever you!:rolleyes:
Rob He gave me the same story. That was the last time I saw this rifle until it surfaced again recently.Quote:
Originally Posted by RobD
The Ajack 10 x 50 scope was only introduced into the Alfred Jackenroll catalogue in the early 1930's and had ceased production by 1940 because the company was a tad more focused on their Military contracts by then.
The Spec on it is,
Magnification 10x
Field of View 13 1/2 feet @ 100yds
Luminosity 50.0
Eye relief 3 inches
Length 15 3/4 inches
Weight 31 Oz (880 gram)
Tube diameter 30mm.
The 10 x 50 Ajack is actually a relatively rare scope as it wasn't particularly popular and only a small number where manufactured before production ended. The fact that it's a hideous looking thing also means relative rarity counts for little and they're not worth a lot.
So the alleged Great War sniper rifle is equipped with a scope that was introduced over a decade after the war had finished, and "Lord Lovat" or "The Officer" who privately purchased it was also a forgotten link in the No4(T) development as it would appear he came up with the concept of a wooden cheekpiece.
I stand by my original thoughts on this one, Fantasy Piece!
Cheers,
Simon.
I dunno - I agree with all those comments before and there is something of the monstrosity about it - but for some reason, for me, it looks quite impressive!
The larger the OG lens, the less the snipers like it because for some reason, the glint is always visible - usually to another sniper! And if not the sniper, then the mortar crews who are always up for a bit of what they call 'stonking' likely targets - such as glinting glass etc etc That's why they always covered the OG end with a tightly stretched face veil and more recently, with a specially designed mesh screen that could screw into the OG lens housing. Nope......... large diameter OG lens is the death knell for any wanna-be sniper telescope. Quite literally in this case!
Did the enormous objective on Maj. whatever's scope in Enemy at the Gates play a role? One wonders. If the reticule looks like a early telegraph pole with 6 crossbars...:-)
Another Hollywood fantasy piece made up with an 8x Ebra scope, would love to know how it was achieved with bnz single claw style mounts as the huge objective lense would only allow the scope to be mounted / dismounted if the top wood where removed.
Cheers,
Simon.
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Originally Posted by Surpmil