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Don't look for one XA, just modify an old one to L42 spec, just like the MoD did. It's only the cursor that needs modifying! You lower the line and ask Son nicely to engrave the M........ you're home and dry!
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01-03-2011 10:04 AM
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L42 rear sights do pop up from time to time, in fact I just received one today I picked up off of epay. Not cheap, but not common either. Keep looking.......
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A whole lot cheaper to just modify your own Lance................
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I've got one or two of those slides here.
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Is that a statement or a question Rob? If it's a question that relates to the L42's, you'll have to elaborate please.............
Peter, if I understood correctly, the previous poster mentioned that there were two L42s built on "Trials No4" bodies which did not use the normal "trials" backsight, but rather what became the standard MkI pattern with plunger rather than ball.
From what I've read of your research and Ian Skennerton
's, there were only 57 Model C rifles built with that later pattern of backsight & plunger, so I was wondering aloud if those two L42s were built from Model C trials rifles, or built from other bodies/actions/rifles that were on hand at RSAF(E) which had been built or modified to accept the standard MkI backsight & plunger?
Hang on....just rereading "The British Service Lee" now, (I'm out of date!
) pps. 153-154, I see that on April 4, 1932 500 No4s were "ordered" with "plunger instead of a ball on the rearsight, along with a new type of spring, a new backsight with 6 clicks instead of 4 per segment of adjustment....These were modelled on the C pattern [trials rifle], and very similar to the eventual No.4 MkI service rifle."
So if those rifles were built, I guess that answers the first question as much as we can from this distance of time.
I'm sure the information on those two rifles came from your research, like so much other that we now bandy about(!); did you encounter any other trials rifle-based No4(T)s or L42s that had the standard pattern backsight?
No mention is made of the light alloy buttplate and sling swivel on the trigger guard that featured on the Model C rifles, so does this mean those features were dropped from that 500 rifles?
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