Lee Enfield n°4(T) and Bipod

[Lou Cypher]

In this following book, full of nice stories, there is one by which we are concerned


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Shot at 2012-04-09
So, it's a book in French, in this book you have many stories about an object and the story of the man who had it during the battle of Normandy.
For us, mainly concerned by the n° 4(T), there is this story :

Shot at 2012-04-09
here is the translation,
Reunion, 54 years after
We are in October 1944. Many months elapsed since the end of the combats that occured in the wood of Bavent when a farmer finds, abandoned in a ditch nearby is house, a particular rifle. This is a Lee Enfield Rifle n°4 equipped with a bi-pod and scope that certainly belonged to a British or Canadian sniper. The farmer picked up the rifle that he kept many years before offering it to a roofer to pay some works done on the roof. In 1998, the retired roofer gave the rifle to a collector and narrows the story of the discovery of the rifle.
He goes with the collector to the place where the gun had been found and show him the "ditch of the gun". Half-hearted, the collector screened the ditch with a detector. The device rings, revealing a funny small metal tool staying in the grass since the war.
This is the rare device used for the setting of the scope of the rifle that retrieves its gun, 54 years later.

So looking at this picture, I wonder if any of you knew that the rifle could be equipped with a bi pod, if yes what kind of bi pod was it. And there is no swivel in front of the magazine.
So what to think about this rifle?

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