Putting a scope on a No 4 Mk II

[Thunderbox]

When using one of these Fultons mounts, does it mean having to fit a sniper cheekpiece and thus having to drill the Butt?.

Frankly, none of the mounts are much good unless you use very low-profile rings & scope. People tend to put a large scope onto a Fultons/Armalon mount, and then find that they need a large cheekpiece or a target butt to get any sort of sight picture. This rig then becomes unwieldy, with some people mistaking severe scope cant for "my rifle doesn't shoot straight", before going on to the next stage of fitting a Harris stud & bipod..... which then brings in to play the No4s sensitivity to sling/support points.... etc. I've had a number of scoped No4s in, p-ex'd because they were "no good" - only to find perfectly good rifles once tested in their bare iron sight configuration.

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[jss]

Frankly, none of the mounts are much good unless you use very low-profile rings & scope

So are rings and scope available for use with these mounts which are so low that they avoid the need for a heightened cheekpiece at all, or will it always be necessary to add a raised cheekpiece of some sort?.

[David TS]

Frankly, none of the mounts are much good unless you use very low-profile rings & scope. People tend to put a large scope onto a Fultons/Armalon mount, and then find that they need a large cheekpiece or a target butt to get any sort of sight picture. This rig then becomes unwieldy, with some people mistaking severe scope cant for "my rifle doesn't shoot straight", before going on to the next stage of fitting a Harris stud & bipod..... which then brings in to play the No4s sensitivity to sling/support points.... etc. I've had a number of scoped No4s in, p-ex'd because they were "no good" - only to find perfectly good rifles once tested in their bare iron sight configuration.

That's why I have gone for a scope with only a 20mm objective - partly because it will look the closest to a No 32 (in profile, whilst looking nothing like it), and partly so I can fit the lowest mounts possible

Trust me, mine will be going nowhere near a bipod

[David TS]

The issue of putting a scope on my No 4 Mk II seems to have gone away.......I seem to have just bought a BSA 1944 No 4 (T), refurbed by Dr Roger Payne, and scope refurbed by Capt Laidler

Anyone like to buy a nice '54 Fazakerley Mk II?