Telescope, Observing, Sniper's C MK 1

[Badger]

Salter - new name to me - where are they and do they have a website?
many thanks

Joe Salter (click here)

Regards,
Doug]

[John R.]

I followed the link and started reading.I got as far as the bit where"he gives CONSERVATIVE descriptions" and nearly spilt a mug of Starbucks into my keyboard.

I would have LOVED to have seen if Joe stated that"WE WILL NOT KNOWINGLY BE OVERSOLD" somewhere further down the page but didn't want to risk having to buy ANOTHER Microsoft "Ergonomic"Keyboard like last time I dumped coffee in one" laughing 'til the tears rolled down my legs".

Joe had HIGH entertainment value in days of yore when he would do the Calgary Easter Show the morning AFTER having indulged in a few "wee drams" of an undoubtedly FINE single malt.I tried NOT to P my pants laughing at his misery as he attempted to drop a mini maglite down the barrel of a P'53 rifle musket that I was holding.He kept asking me to "hold it still" and didn't see that I had the butt resting on my table in a rock solid grip.I DETEST hangovers !

Cheers all,

JR

[Surpmil]

Plenty of potassium before and plenty of water after = no hangover.

[Amatikulu]

A bunch of bananas and a fire hose = no hangover?

[Surpmil]

Too much of one and not enough of the other.

[Surpmil]

If we get enough of these posted, maybe we'll be able to find matching serial numbers scopes and tripods, although they were never matched originally ....

Regards,
Badger

I wonder if there is any evidence of that?

Given that the same number of each were produced, and no doubt shipped from the factory together, it would have made sense to match the scopes, cases and tripods by serial number: only one number to be recorded/remembered by those to whom they were issued etc.

No doubt they got mixed up in the decades of service they saw with the Canadian Army after WWII (including in Korea), or quite possibly, they were simply mixed up when sold off as surplus, as the Warner & Swasey scopes and cases were for example.

By all means let's start a spreadsheet Badger and see what we can mate up. I'll PM you mine now, and perhaps you can keep a version with names and one without for public posting?

[bearhunter]

I've been looking for one of those for years. I've come accross a few real beaters without tripods but that's it.

What on earth is a "skip"? Over here skip is usually from a faulty phonograph or the member of the curling team that guides the rock placement.

[Surpmil]

skip=bin=dumpster

[bearhunter]

Good grief, the uncaring and uneducated are taking over all over the world.

[Surpmil]

Well, 3,600.47 Pounds and 24 bids later, here we have what I suspect is one of the REL Telescope, Sniper's, Observing sent to the UK for trials in 1944/45.

Note that the scope and case numbers match (If I may have a little crow about my earlier hypothesis ;-) ) and that the Stand, Instrurment, CNo47 is serial number 3!

Hopefully it's coming back to Canada and we may see more photos in future.

Canadian Sniper's CMK1 Observing Telescope 1944 rare - eBay (item 180509762831 end time May-26-10 06:12:09 PDT)