Overbore A5 mounting during WW1

[Roger Payne]

I don't think anyone really knows for sure - that's the problem with WW1 stuff - it is nowhere near as well documented as the No 4 (T) production history of WW2, for example. It may be that the other mount referred to (IIRC it's in the notes that accompanied the Pattern Room Collection of WW1 snipers which disappeared early in WW2) is indeed the easyfix mount, but we just don't really know. There are still many unexplained questions about WW1 sniping rifles & scopes. It is frustrating but at the same time makes collecting & researching them so fascinating.

Incidentally, there was an over bore claw mounted SMLE sniper produced late in WW1. It was produced by the Periscopic Prism Co contemporaneously with the No3 (T)'s, & it is quite obviously a modification of the No3 (T) claw mounts to fit a SMLE receiver. The WW2 era Lithgow No1 Mk3* (H) T snipers are also essentially this, but they mount the rear base on the charger bridge whereas the WW1 type had it mounted on the receiver side wall in an equivalent location to a No4 (T) rear pad.

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