Looking to start a clone smle sniper.

[Bruce_in_Oz]

Composites and modern adhesives are wonderful things, but attempting to hold a scope base and rings on a .303 cal rifle would be a true test of the engineering and chemistry.

The BIG problem with things like the Australian "HT" snipers and the Brit No4T series is that incredibly fiddly procedure to collimate the scopes, not entirely to the bore, but to the TRAJECTORY of the bullet. There is NO windage adjustment in either system; the scope had to be "optically centred and then the BASES were "tweaked" to bring a "nominal" zero onto the same POA as the previously adjusted "iron" sights. The original optics are of the "reticule-moving" type, not the more modern, "image-moving" items seen everywhere today. Thus a "perfectly zeroed" Patt 18 or No.32 may be seen with the "reticule" off-centre, both vertically and horizontally. A "perfect" set up would see the the reticule perfectly centred, On these old girls, this is achieved with LOT of tinkering with the bases / pads.

Maybe some enterprising chap could take up my wild idea of building adjustments into a modern "clone" of the bases / rings, rather than fool around trying to re-engineer the old scopes.

Does anyone have anything on the late use of scopes on the L-42 (A1) other than the "L1" optic?