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    Quote Originally Posted by mr.e moose View Post
    Just a question on this one. Would the front sight protector be fixed to the barrel to maintain zero?
    The short answer is "no". How was such a design ever seriously proposed, let alone approved for service? Hard to understand. Whitehead Bros. built some fine torpedoes I'm sure, but telescope mountings plainly were not their forte.

    All the WWI era Winchester A5 scopes I have seen in photos or the flesh, had plain locking screws on the rings, so those 3/8" rails or bases are not correct. How could they be with locking slots facing the rifle in such a way that the locking screws would be totally inaccessible?

    Nice to see a Canadianicon marked SMLE, but Ishapore screws were not a Canadian practice either.

    And what's the funny square slot in the handguard for?

    Last edited by Surpmil; 01-20-2017 at 08:29 PM.
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