Ajack on an enfield?

[tower06]

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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[Simon]

If that's a genuine Great War Sniper the drinks are on me!

Nothing more than a fantasy piece.

Cheers,

Simon.

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?

[tower06]

If that's a genuine Great War Sniper the drinks are on me!

Nothing more than a fantasy piece.

Cheers,

Simon.

I didn't think so either, but I figured one of the experts on here would know better.

[Thunderbox]

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...

[Roger Payne]

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

[Simon]

I know a good cheekweld is difficult to achieve on WWI Sniper with the offset scope but that's ridiculous. You'd need a neck like a Giraffe and a Loophole the size of a bucket.

Cheers,

Simon.

[Simon P]

That was for sale at Bisley a few years back, it was on the stall outside of the NRA office.

[tower06]

That was for sale at Bisley a few years back, it was on the stall outside of the NRA office.

Any story behind it?

[RobD]

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.

[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.

Rob He gave me the same story. That was the last time I saw this rifle until it surfaced again recently.