Fazakerley Trail Sight Information - No 8 .22LR

[pedro243]

Hi All,

I have asked this in the past with no luck, so thought i would try again.

I have a Fazakerley No8 rifle which is fitted with what appears to be a trail sight.

This site can be seen on page 297 of the Lee Enfield Book, in the section discussing the 2 possible variants of No8 Rifles.

Unfortunately, the windage adjusting screw on mine was broken when i got the rifle. I wish to get another one made to restore the sight to a functioning condition.

Would anyone happen to have a similar sight? if you do, are you able to send me some pictures and dimensions of the windage adjusting screw?

I know it will be impossible to find any further information on them. Some say very few were made.

Any help would be awesome.

Regards,

PJ

[Sapper740]

Lance Lysiuk discusses these sights on P. 232 of his book "The Lee Enfield .22 inch R.F. Rifles" although none of the pictures show a variable aperture sight like yours has. I learned something new today when I read up on your rifle's sight: the H setting shoots approximately 27 inches high at 25 yards allowing the shooter to shoot another group without changing the target.

[pedro243]

Lance Lysiuk discusses these sights on P. 232 of his book "The Lee Enfield .22 inch R.F. Rifles" although none of the pictures show a variable aperture sight like yours has. I learned something new today when I read up on your rifle's sight: the H setting shoots approximately 27 inches high at 25 yards allowing the shooter to shoot another group without changing the target.

Yes, the only reference i have seen is the picture in Skennertons book so it must be a true prototype.

The H setting is for landscape shooting. For training they use to set up a large panoramic country side painting with different landscape features. They would adjust to the H setting so the shots would go high. This way they could say "enemy, left hand side of the tree" then they could shoot and the shot should be 27 inches high on the largest paper.

[browningautorifle]

landscape shooting

Yes, we were still using that technology with the sustained fire kits for our C6(MAG58) Mgs in '93/'96. Sights set high so you could show a group without destroying targets.