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Simple misstatement. Intended to say "standard back sight base"'; the rest of the post refers to the backsight & base.

If there was a not a dedicated dovetail block mounted on the barrel then presumably the male dovetails were put on either side of a standard(?) scope base. There does seem to be a gap large enough...

The Zeiss bifocal sight does look less than ideal for trench warfare. ;)

I don't know if this is the Leitz "Glasvizier" or not, but it was described as such. A long eye-relief scope perhaps? Or...

Zeiss was no doubt keeping a close eye on developments abroad and pursuing them in the usual systematic fashion. For service use the Grubb design would be much preferable I suspect, especially as...

A little more. The Burghers never did have to worry about Sir Howard Grubb's sight turning every Tommy into a marksman, and of course neither did the Germans!
Grubb died in 1931 and apparently it...

This came up in a thread on the Ross rifle forum, but as it relates to the long Lee Enfield, and a lot more, I thought I'd start a thread about it here.

Ian Skennerton referred in his books to Dr....