Hal and others. No4T info

[Peter Laidler]

Hal, maybe I can save you a bit of time and money. There's every chance that being an ex trials No4T, yours might not have even had a cheek rest fitted. The cheek rests were originally designed and manufactured for the P14 T's with their higher telescopes and NOT for the No4T's. At Warminster, we have the original P'14 sniper on which the tests were carried out (don't have number/scope on hand.....). It was after these trials that someone suggested that the cheek rest would fit the No4 as well..... The rest, as they say, is history.

That's why the approval date for the cheek rest is way ahead of the adoption date and SAI's (Small Arms Information - sheets of information for Armourers, issued AFTER the Instructions for Armourers but before EMER's) were issued that the cheek rest could be fitted to No4T rifles. So if your butt is original and without screw holes, then leave it!

I have not ever seen the SAI's that relate to this because they were flimsy pieces of paper but Arthur Maddock, a very old Armourer of the era told me that the cheek rests originally came out with a P-14 (British)Ordnance part number as opposed to a No4 Ordnance part number of the BA xxxx type (or P-14 US type part number). Later they got a Ministry of Supply part number of the B1/CR xxxx type. And because they were MADE to configure and fit to a P'14 butt, they never fit a No4 butt properly.

Just another bit of useless info but not a lot of the No4T experts know/knew that. And that leads me to another thing. You can always tell a modern repro cheek rest because they fit TOO good! That's unless the Armourer has taken a bit of time to fit one exactly to the No4T butt

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