.22 Lee Enfield trainer rear sight..forgot what it is for: HELP!!!

[Peter Laidler]

I don't think that anyone has an old EMER left for these L81 monstrosities any more but I'll ask. I don't think that the L81 and M84 bodies were the same either as the 81 wasn't machined for a magazine. I seem to remember that the body was drilled on the breeching up rings for a telescope mount but my views regarding mounting a telescope pad on a thin receiver ring are well known.

\If you need more info on them, Brian at BDL has a couple(?) of the user handbooks and Fultons have a couple of the rifles. As I said earlier, the scoped version came top in the accuracy part of the 80's sniper rifle trials. Accuracy was good. Maintainability was rubbish.

Another point that I seem to remember being discussed at length during the period was the fact that while they came with a cheap and nasty abortion of an iron sight, originally, there wasn't even a P-H MoA type sight that would fit. Believe it or not, the optional unit-buy sight that was suggested would foul the opening and closing of the bolt..........

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[Buccaneer]

I don't think that anyone has an old EMER left for these L81 monstrosities any more but I'll ask. I don't think that the L81 and M84 bodies were the same either as the 81 wasn't machined for a magazine. I seem to remember that the body was drilled on the breeching up rings for a telescope mount but my views regarding mounting a telescope pad on a thin receiver ring are well known.

I think it is fairly obvious that Peter does not like the L81 rifle so I thought that for all of you out there in forum land who don't know what he is on about I have posted a few pictures.
The sight mentioned at the begining of this thread is fitted to this rifle, also note the rather novel and simple way of adjusting the length of the butt simply by adding or removing spacers, remember this was designed to be used by cadets who as we know come in many shapes and sizes, a poorly fitting rifle that kicks a cadet every time he or she pulls the trigger could put them off shooting for life !!!!
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