British Army 7.62 mm L1A1 Boresighting Device

[Peter Laidler]

To be honest Gil, I never used a laser boresighter. I used to zero the new Guard L85 rifles, with the new guard every Wed morning here on the 25m range before lunch, before they changed guard for their weeks stint. Some iron sights, some SUSAT. Sit around on the firing point, have a chat, go through the armed protocols etc etc in a relaxed way. Never found the need for the laser. Where we did find it useful was - do you remember that adjustable grenade sight thinggy/abortion that went over the top of the SUSAT? We had to fit these to 300 rifles and used the laser boresight down in the QM's cellar where it was dark to adjust the grenade sight to a point relative to the bore.

The good bit was that the rifle grenade was declared obsolete soon afterwards because the power from a ballastite cartridge was crap and the Australian ADE shoot-through grenade was 'found wanting' after another SASC Captain was blown up while firing one during a demo!

Sorry for going off at a tangent. A bit like that grenade I'd say.........

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[Gil Boyd]

Blimey............that re envigered my memory banks, yes totally forgot all about yet another piece of crap we had ha ha!
Lots of good stuff came from the Trial and Error unit at SASC thats why Benny left us and went over to the dark side with you

All joking aside, if it wasn't for you guys many a battle would have been lost had we stuck ridgidly with the bondooks as they were issued. So much was learnt in addition to the manufacturers issued "guide book" on every single weapon, from total experience in the field.

Just take the SA80 as an example and how it has evolved to what it is today, from such early disastrous operational days..... days I shall never forget, however, all the info gathered by you guys made it what it is now, how you found the patience I'll never know, I would have stuck it up someones area where the sun doesn't shine at Royal Ordnance at lot earlier than when it did finally get inserted