No. 4 MKI (T)

[RJW NZ]

Thats a great breakdown Alan, thanks, it's going in my files, for when I can say...I'll have one of everything on this list, lol...lotto fantasies...

I must admit to T lust, ever since reading war comics about anzacs at Tripoli and chasing Rommel through the desert. It lingers too because I like the idea of a tuned up sniper rifle, its very sexy to have Holland and Holland on a rifle I own, and I'm discovering that most sniper rifles don't seem to have been tuned, just a scope added to a regular rifle, which puts a T in a class of its own.

[bradtx]

Joseph, For the fun of it I did another search of 'scopes suitable as a No.32 replacement. My primary concern is to replicate the (T) shooting experiance as closely as possible. I still think the K2.5 is the best choice and the K3 the second best choice based on price and availability. I looked for Red Star 'scopes and it looks like they're now known as NC Star.

Perhaps Peter or Brian can comment about using a mount not 'tuned' to the rifle WRT tightening and alignment.

Brad

[Peter Laidler]

I haven't ever set up a commercial scope on a No4 so I can't comment. But suffice it to say, the optical and mechanical principle of thye setting up (the centring and exact collimation of the scope and bore) are the same throughout.

Several years ago now I saw a LB/Lyman TP scope, supposedly matched, set-up. Clearly the scope and rifle were original and the scope bracket might (?) have been but something was definately amiss somewhere....., probably with the home made (?) rifle bracket part because to get it to hit the target at 100 yards, the graticle was very high and over to the left. Even when clicked down to 1,000 yards the tip of the grat was just about centred but still over to the left of course! But he wouldn't have it!

But once the seller had marked out, drilled, tapped and mounted the bracket, then sweated it into place over the drilled out and reamed to size locating pegs, there was no going back.........., even though he had the rear hole already in place.

Nobody had told them (the do'er and the stupid buyer) that there was no quick fix and no quick bolt-on job that will equate to a bit of common sense and what we call 'the bleedin obvious'. I told the fellow that if he undid the locktite and screws and removed the rifle bracket, at least he could rectify the ****-poor deflection error. But no, he wouldn't have it. This how it always was and presumably they ALL are! I checked of course with ours and they're not all like that, they're optically and mechanically perfect!

In fact, when I said words to the effect that it '........just feels optically wrong.....' he thought that and spoke to me as if I'd just fallen out of a tree.

Where were we...........? Ah, yes............... Just make sure that you use your loaf when you fit even a commercial scope and even more importantly, as I learned to my cost yesterday when fitting a new worktop to my work bench, measure twice and cut once