Did Holland & Holland use recycled scopes?

[bigduke6]

Or if we had one damaged rifle with good scope and one good rifle with damaged scope?

I would guess this was the case, Both 1944 rifles, is it not a saying anything is possible during a War? or the old saying mend and make do.
I just think at this time everyone was stretched to the limit am sure 1944 was the peak time of everything back then (or the build up to D Day for them in the know) other thing I was thinking maybe training rifles ?

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[jmoore]

...other thing I was thinking maybe training rifles ?

You are setting your aspirations too high! Like pretty much any No.4 Mk.(T) in close to "as delivered" condition, these rifles likely spent almost all of their military careers in the stores room. Toward the back. As back-ups to the stuff that went "out" on a regular basis. The rifles with "history" have (almost) all been rebuilt, possibly multiple times. And the ex-front line rifles probably mostly went to India and such after the war...Easy way to spare the expense of dealing with "tired" and early gear.