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UIC scopes
Peter, can you shed any light (or can anyone else) on UIC serial numbering? I've meant to look at it for years; but then I've been meaning to wash the car, too! I believe UIC manufactured Mk1, Mk2 & Mk2/1 scopes. I wonder just exactly how many of each type they did make & how many times they went back to serial number 1 again....
I currently own 4 UIC scopes marked as follows:
Serial no 9 marked as Mk2 but assembled as 2/1
Serial no 296 marked as Mk2 & assembled as such
Serial no 189 built on a former Mk1 tube, with Mk'2' replacing the Mk'1'
& with the 466A barred out & replaced by 1650A. Assembled as Mk2.
Serial no 43 marked & assembled as Mk2/1 - see Nigel's earlier post.
I suppose tubes may not always have been assembled in ascending numerical order.....
ATB
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I knew an old Gentleman, (Canadian
Army lifer), now deceased who worked at the sniper school at CFB Borden during Korea and he told me the Lyman equipped rifles were removed from the order of battle for the exact reasons Peter describes above.
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Roger, I have UIC sn. 531 marked and assembled as a 2/1.
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I knew an old Gentleman, (
Canadian Army lifer), now deceased who worked at the sniper school at CFB Borden during Korea and he told me the Lyman equipped rifles were removed from the order of battle for the exact reasons Peter describes above.
Did he tell you roughly when that happened?
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Don't quote me but I think it was in 1950. His name was Harry Toye. Some of you may have known him.
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Just thinking out aloud re the Lyman, apart from the obvious lack of waterproofing and range scale, I wonder about a sniper holed up in a hide, looking at a target at, say 400 yards. With a No32, he'd remember his basic training and think '2,3,3,3,4,5 and so on (the range scale, in clicks, from memory.......). So he'd wind back the drum to the stop, count the clicks to ZERO, which he'd know, then count 11 clicks and KNOW that he'd be at 400 yards.
The Lyman doesn't even have this....., a most important feature of any sniper telescope, otherwise you can't shoot in the dark....., or even half light.
Mmmmmmm, Lymans..............!
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Brian,
Thx for the info. I've just bid on no 496 - also marked & issued as a 2/1, though I rather suspect someone with a bigger wallet than I will land the piece.
ATB
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I was right, someone with a much bigger wallet did get it!
ATB
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