Quote Originally Posted by Homer View Post
Mate you posted pictures of your rifle so people would make comments didn't you? Ok so now people are making comments. To me, cocking a rifle for a photo is a strange thing to do. It's just my opinion as it is others so time to move on I think.
I would have preferred more discussion about the rifles themselves. Decocking a rifle requires extra effort and is impossible to do with many designs without dry firing.

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Quote Originally Posted by Peter Laidlericon View Post
I don't think that they were ever declared obsolete. We still had them in the 60's. Obsolescent maybe but that meant that they could continue in use until there were no more stocks available from Ordnance
Just to make sure, you're talking about the pressed sheet metal rear sights on No5's and not the ones on No4's? If so, that lends evidence to them being less common during WW2 also, versus them being common during WW2 and mostly and purposefully swapped out later. Just speculation.