No4(T) No32 Scope Bracket

[jimmieZ]

The seller just added the receiver pads today - very rough and extremely odd method of fixing to the receiver. The front pad has 3 screws and 2 pins - odd pattern for the screws - not to normal spec. Then there are the 2 pins that anchor the pad to the top of the receiver. The rear pad has only the through-hole for the bracket fixing screw - no individual mounting screws like we see on every other correct rifle - seller says rear mount was silver soldered only. With all that I've observed, it definitely looks "foreign" to British construction. I tend to agree with prior assertion this may have been a setup copied by and implemented by India (or another former colony using British equipment). I also think it is an original bracket - just not original to war department specs. With the odd configuration of the mounting blocks, I'd be concerned the bracket may not match the mounting points of a correctly setup rifle from H&H.

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[Surpmil]

The seller just added the receiver pads today - very rough and extremely odd method of fixing to the receiver. The front pad has 3 screws and 2 pins - odd pattern for the screws - not to normal spec. Then there are the 2 pins that anchor the pad to the top of the receiver. The rear pad has only the through-hole for the bracket fixing screw - no individual mounting screws like we see on every other correct rifle - seller says rear mount was silver soldered only. With all that I've observed, it definitely looks "foreign" to British construction. I tend to agree with prior assertion this may have been a setup copied by and implemented by India (or another former colony using British equipment). I also think it is an original bracket - just not original to war department specs. With the odd configuration of the mounting blocks, I'd be concerned the bracket may not match the mounting points of a correctly setup rifle from H&H.

The pads are Israeli; no connection to the bracket that I can see, except that they should fit together.