Warning - Fake No.32 MkIII on eBay

[Badger]

Also please be advised that I wanted to post bigger images but this site won't allow it and I would have had to use photo bucket and they have a bad habit of removing images.

Well, that's not quite true ...

The site will handle uploaded JPG pics of 300 kb and that easily handles web viewing of images that are 1280x1024, or so large they'd fill your screen.

I think you're confusing original file size and height x width of pic. My camera takes over 10 megapixel shots which save with each pic being almost 4 megabytes in size ..

Obviously no web site is going to host pics of that size, so all I do is run them through something like the free Microsoft program. This FREE PowerToy enables you to resize one or many image files with a single (right-click) I use the 800x600 or 1024x768 mode for resizing with it and it creates small file sized (yet huge screen pics for viewing) using easy uploads, yet maintains excellent resolution and details for Internet viewing ..... and it's FREE !!!!

How do I upload or post images? (click here)

Microsoft's FREE Image Resizer (click here)

Hope that helps ...

If you still have problems, then email the full size pics to badger@milsurps.com and I'll re-size them for you and insert them into your post. :up:

Regards,
Badger

[Peter Laidler]

On the subject, another Mk2, this time a WATSON, on that auction site
1304-0918-7103 is very definately NOT a fake if that's what someone earlier was referring to

LEE ENFIELD SNIPER No32 TELESCOPE - eBay (item 130409187103 end time Jul-18-10 09:25:29 PDT)

[jmoore]

I am the guy that bought the scope that has you guys all talking......It really looks great on my rifle!!! But I spoke to Brian Dick at BDL Ltd, and he looked at the pics and said that it is a fake. I am going to send it to him to look at as soon as i get a chance and make an officail determination.
As far as the New auction with the same scope in it ....The seller informed me that when the scope did not sell the first time he set it up to relaunch at a later date. Mean while I purchased it. He never cancelled the new auction. He was very apologetic.
Even though I gambled and lost(the way things are looking), the scope really does look like a quality piece.

Well Thanks Guys!
Please dont bust my chops to bad!!

Thanks
Scott

No busting if you promise a detailed report! If these folk would just come clean I'd buy two or three just to have something which I could take out to the field and abuse.

[Longshaor]

Here's a question, how much should one of these repros actually cost? I know this is seriously speculative given no one seems to know who's making them, but a ball park figure would give me some guidance & be very appreciated.

Cheers!

[sniper3]

At War and Piece show at Beltring, I saw them ranging from £440 for scope only to £850 for scope, mounts tin and pads. I went on the first day on the 21st july and saw two of these, one without mount and one with I offered him £1000 for both and after haggeling he agreed. As I didn't have that much cash on I offered £100 as down payment and will get the rest on sunday 25th july whach was also agreed. Only to go back and find the pitch empty and my deposit gone and the scopes. It's a shame cause I would have liked to strip them down and have a look inside to see what type of work had gone into them.

[Tim-TNT]

i would love to buy a replica no32 scope for a nice price. No my enfield is stuck with a no42 scope. So if anybody has a replica no32 for my savage no4mk1 let me know so i can finish my project for 100% before the remembrance of market garden in September

Cheers Tim

[Peter Laidler]

Just as a matter of interest, how did you get a No42 - or a 53 for that matter - into a No32 bracket? The diameter of the 42/53 is much larger

[Tim-TNT]

Hi Peter,

I just have a little bit of space between the 2 parts of the bracket. The scope is market with tel.stg no 42. I just got a few MM of space. Follow this link