Lee Enfield No.4 Mk2. rifle front sight windage adjustment?

[Peter Laidler]

Someone asked exactly WHY the |No4 (and No5 and Sterling) foresight tools are useless and it's only fair to tell you. The first thig is that you have to unwind and wind in the screws for every rifle that needs adjustment. And it's usually every one when they've been FTR'd. And secondly, it sits over the foresight protector that is never a good snug fit in the cramp so when you do need to move the blade over to the left by the amount you have calculated after having learned the formula by rote (only to forget it immediately after the exam I hasten to add), you find that the screw touches the edge of the foresight blade and the next half turn or so doesn't move the blade at all................ NO! It just takes up the backlash between the cramp and the protector until it starts to bite. By which time your calculations are half a turn out which is x" at 100 yards which means that the.....so the left side screw must now be released another half turn - or is it tightened up................?

Someone else also suggested that tapping the side of the blade with a small hammer and brass drift might move the foresight block unless it's supported and......... No it won't believe me. The foresight block band is sat astride two full length positioning lugs and it ain't going to move nowhere!