Need help identifying unusual Enfield rear sight

[Peter Laidler]

It is a No4 rifle sight modified for use on the 7.62mm Cadet target rifle (called the L81 A1) based on the Mauser 98 action. It was all done on the cheap, hence the sight. It was said that this sight could be used as a target sight on the 7.62mm L81 if it was read as metres. That was pure horse manure!

Those in the know at the time moved hell and high water to squash the rifle, suggesting, quite rightly that the Cadet Forces would be better off using the hundreds of under used L39's stuck in Ordnance for years and years. After all, they were still using the very similar No4's. But no, the Cadet executive knew best................. As they did with the crap L98 single shot bolt action, straight pull SA80. What a sack of manure that was. That, incidentally, is now being replaced, not before time, with a self loading (but NON automatic version) version of the SA80

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[RBruce]

Hmmmm? Would have been nice to have some detailed explanation for the potty mouth opinions. Some of us are not as well educated in this subject as others.

It was all done on the cheap, hence the sight.

It was said that this sight could be used as a target sight on the 7.62mm L81 if it was read as metres. That was pure horse manure!

Those in the know at the time moved hell and high water to squash the rifle, suggesting, quite rightly that the Cadet Forces would be better off using the hundreds of under used L39's stuck in Ordnance for years and years.

As they did with the crap L98 single shot bolt action, straight pull SA80. What a sack of manure that was.

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[Surpmil]

It is a No4 rifle sight modified for use on the 7.62mm Cadet target rifle (called the L81 A1) based on the Mauser 98 action. It was all done on the cheap, hence the sight....Those in the know at the time moved hell and high water to squash the rifle, suggesting, quite rightly that the Cadet Forces would be better off using the hundreds of under used L39's stuck in Ordnance for years and years. After all, they were still using the very similar No4's. But no, the Cadet executive knew best....

Mauser snobs eh? "Fire at will!"