Long Lee Enfield/CLLE WW1 Sniper rifle.

[harlton]

Hi Roger,
Sorry again for the delay, I'm still waiting on a replacement Battery, so I'm going to keep this short in the hope I actually get to post it this time. I'll be only too happy to send copies of what I have to you by hook or by crook. On the French making up rifles for us, I got that info out of one or more of my old Books that I have, so once I find it I'll let you know. I have a picture of a smle with the APX scope conversion, whole rifle, so no confusion there. The CLLE is in Martin Pegler's Sniper rifles Page 33. If you look, as I know you will, you'll notice the little short rear finger guard, with the four rivit's in it, so I doubt that is converted to 25.2"s as it wouldn't make much sense, but the shot is only of the scope area, I'll send you the picture. Some of the other pictures I have are a mix of in circulation, some from books, so from picture sellers, and other from local WW1 Battalion library pictures.
I too find early WW1 the most fascinating period for sniper rifles, I wish I could find scopes as you do, but I haven't even seen one for sale at Canadian gun shows, the exception, two Warner & Swasey scopes but both without mounts, of course a few winch A5's, that I wish I'd purchased now. I have one and as a Target scope it's great for that, but not the best once I've looked thru, compared with my german scopes, re field of view. my Dr Gerard B3 is great for the era I think.
I'm the same on the No4T's, I like them and wish I'd purchased one, back when I should have for around $1200 complete and as new, but I didn't. A guy I thought a lot of had one, and I've built a careful replica that I enjoy, but wouldn't go any further.
The WW1 Large bore scoped rifles, clandestine meetings trading glass for rubber, and making all those other scopes and rifle combo's work, plus the catch up they did was Brillant ! I'll be in touch next week, when this has a new Battery and hopefully I've found all my info to send you. Thanks for all again Roger, Best regards Ian.