P.14 & M. 17 Historical Query

[Peter Laidler]

We've got a couple of those at work Mk7. It was one of this type of offset conversions that was used to formulate the fitting of the cheek rest. The rest as they say, is history

On the subject of snipers as related to what Mk7 has said above and the like, there's a few lines in the Small Arms School weapon training memorandum dated March 1940 that states:
1 SNIPERS
As snipers no longer form part of the organization of the infantry section, the reference to their use in Para 1 and 2 on page 4 of pamphlet No2 should be deleted.

There's a few more odds and sode referring to the No3T and No4T rifles that I'll pass on when I get round to it

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[Surpmil]

....On the subject of snipers...there's a few lines in the Small Arms School weapon training memorandum dated March 1940 that states:
1 SNIPERS
As snipers no longer form part of the organization of the infantry section, the reference to their use in Para 1 and 2 on page 4 of pamphlet No2 should be deleted

I wonder if this meant the revival of a separate intelligence/sniping section instead of the snipers being divied out among the rifle companies.

Will resist a la Strangelove temptation to take thread off topic into MGC etc!

Whenever I handle one of my P14s I have a little grin at Reynold's comment about "the rather rough ("Sniff, sniff") American P14",

All round the best Mauser ever made really.

To correct somewhat what I wrote before, Skennerton in "The US Enfield" (which covers both the P14 and M17), says scopes were fitted to P14s 'unofficially' by the Canadians, Australians and others in 1917 & 1918. I have seen a photo of Canadian snipers in Mons in 1918 holding both P14s and Ross MkIIIs. The scopes unfortunately are not visible.