Enfield Mk No4 Mk1 Scope Bridge for review

[Peter Laidler]

The answer is very simple and needs no further elaboration. It looks real/genuine enough but in the past, probably when these things were dirt cheap and ten-a-penny, some turkey has fitted another telescope to it and found that he needs to cut the rearmost 1/2" or so off the rear end in order to allow the ocular end of his 'better' telescope to to fit.

The good news is that you could still use it with a No32 telescope and it'd still hold the telescope fast because the horizontal movement of the telescope is controlled by the front cradle part, as is the anti rotation medium. And the front cradle part is intact.

The same turkey that 'fixed' your bracket came to my house recently to 'fix' my leaky shower tiles. He's been back a few times since to 're-fix' the leaks but he's failed because they don't make that silicon sealer stuff in half hundredweight tubes

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[vintage hunter]

It should be against the law for some people to posses a hacksaw....
What are the chances of the leg breaking off under recoil? The ''turkey'' didn't leave much of a radius in the corner. Looks like he just snapped off the portion to be removed after making the cuts.

[bigduke6]

The same turkey that 'fixed' your bracket came to my house recently to 'fix' my leaky shower tiles. He's been back a few times since to 're-fix' the leaks but he's failed because they don't make that silicon sealer stuff in half hundredweight tubes

That turkey was round my house few weeks back building a dwarf wall for the new porch to match the original brickwork and alow the soon to be, new bay windows to all fit together, what part of " I want a double brick wall with imperial bricks and a brick finish inside" they couldn't understand beats me because none of it was correct, I got home to find a single brick wall, metric bricks, crap inside finish and wasn't even level or the right height, hadn't been tied in and the old peble dash wasn't removed to butt the new wall up against the old........... I,m no bricky but I know the basics and I,m quite good at laying bricks (but not on the same time scale as proper bricky as the wife wanted it done this year) Its a shame these days that people are prepared to cut corners so much, I,ve called them people as they certanly weren't tradesmen.