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No. 32 scope mounts now going for $850?
Enfield No. 4 Mk1(T) Sniper Scope Mount : Scope Accessories & Scope Parts at GunBroker.com
Recently a No 32 scope and mount sold for about 2950 USD? And at least in Australia the No 32 scopes are going for about $1000 - $2000. ( Lawrance Ordnance - Military Telescopic Sights ) Apparently the values of these things has gone up recently?
A.K S Mk III No.32 scope for sale
Forgive me if this sounds like salesmanship, but whilst I know my repro brackets will never be originals, they are usually well received, & I do currently have another batch on the way. Hopefully I should have them by September. I can't compete with the Pacific Rim variety on price, but mine are made up to a standard, & entirely here in the UK. They will also be around half, or even slightly less than half if I can do it, of the price mentioned above for an original.
Thanks to everyone who has enquired for their patience. Getting the No32 brackets has always been a big job for me, but a little one for the people who do the machining for me............I just have to wait my turn; but they're on their way!
ATB
Original bracket was sold! Rejoice if you have a "spare" original.
Roger, I think you undersell yourself. It's probably well enough known now that your original brackets were used in the last refurbishment programme of L42's going into deep pres. and War Reserve stocks. That's surely all anyone needs to know! If that ain't the next thing to 'original' then I don't know what is.............
In fact that makes them ISSUE Rog.:beerchug:
Reference was made earlier in this post to No 32 scopes at Lawrence Ordinance - for those who haven't visited their website, I think its worth pointing out that all the No 32 scopes they are offering (from approx. $1200 to $2000) have cloudy lenses and/or broken reticles
R P in this world if the product your supplying is as good as the original and used in a fit up as Peter said then the only thing you cannot get is the Armourers who fitted them up in WWII and stamped them and I would say even though its nice to have an original (on a limb here for flak) then todays manufactured quality may per say be better than it's war time bracket.:move eek:
Yes there is the demand but put pure and simple we are not engaged in a world war so the tolerances should be as good or if not even better as they are only under time constraints not being bombed or fifth columnists.....!
:lol::lol:well said
If I could come in here AGAINST the quality of Rgers mounts in an oblique sort of way...., certainly the first batch that I dealt with during the Ordnance programme, it's this. For reasons best known to themselves, the MoD insisted that not only were they identical naturally enough but that the bloody metal remained so too! That's why they came as blackheart malleable cast iron! I mean......... there's taking originality to the limit - and they even tested it to boot! But the spec is the spec is the spec I suppose.........
Cloudy lenses, broken reticles - an easy fix if you can get that price down. Cheaper too if you can supply a No42/53. Has anyone out there in Forumland got a rebuilt L-Ordnance scope?
The irony about the last deep reservation war reserve programme was that they were then taken OUT of war reserve and a small scale issue authorised for another reason that I won't mention. Add to that the fact that Ordnance were prepared to sanction new-build brackets but not new stocks of replacement fore-ends/handguards) or even cheek pieces if my memory serves me correctly). It was multiple patching for the older L42 woodwork and the remainder stripped for spares and chopped
They are the only brackets other than originals that I'll fit. I send folks with the Sarco and Numrich crap elsewhere.
Peter I thought you would have learnt never question the decisions the higher ups make! :D as we all know the only real people who know the score are those at the coal face.
Gads for them to make a decision to have it made right down to the material begs questioning given the modern stuff we can produce today.:dunno:
I am not being a wally just I see it time and again in my industry in some instances the higher ups miss the mark somewhat.
We have had the bean counters strike here at our range with the ADF who actually own our range but tolerate us having buildings on it we have a nice big club house with all the niceties and allot of shooting history dating back to I think 1880's for our region in the Southwest, we used to charge them a certain peppercorn fee I mean the buildings are there to be used and we do have a caretaker on the range 24/7.
Buuuuuut the bean counters think it is better they pack up move every one 26klms back to the depot and back again 26klms so they lose valuable on the range training by packing, unpacking and travel time and if you equated what we charge the Army into acorns it would feed a squirrel for its entire 3 lifetimes.
Mind you they would be very experienced packing and unpacking their kit......................................'ang on a mo' just gotta unpack me weapon so I can join the fray! :rofl: