Clearly they were all test fired and passed the required accuracy test prior to issue and trials otherwise there'd be no point in putting them a) through the trials and b) issuing them for extended troop trials afterwards, albeit as bog standard No4 rifles.

Given this and the greater accuracy required of a No4 over a No1 and the simplicity of fitting up a No4 over a No3 rifle, then I'd say that it was cut and dried! Any further accuracy tests were pretty academic as they'd already been through and passed one!

Just my thoughts, knowing how the trials teams work now and presumably used the same 'bleedin obvious' formula then.

I've just re-read that again and I hope that it doesn't sound insulting to anyone out there in forum-land........... So please don't take it as an insult but rather a play on language!

We have the paperwork regarding these trials. It's pretty exhaustive so I don't want to go through it all again.....................