Quote Originally Posted by Troglodyte View Post
I lucked into scope 51 and case 448 on eBay UKicon a few years ago, the seller said his father (while doing his National Service) pulled it from a box of scopes headed for disposal.

Suggests several of them may have made their way to the UK only to be destroyed when declared obsolete.
Perhaps his father spent some time in Canadaicon? The mismatches between cases and scopes presumably occurred over time in service. We now have five or six scopes showing up in the UK in contrast to the two sent for appraisal in 1945. But over time rifle teams travelling back and forth etc. could account for that. The kit was sure to appeal to marksmen for range use, and might even have been issued to Canadian service rifle teams? Presumably they were surplussed off sometime around the introduction of the FN C1A1.