Enfield Enforcer - Update

[Peter Laidler]

Have I missed something in the thread T-bone? I thought the PH5C. was bolted to the side of the rifle body. While there will be rotational forces, with the 5C set-up, you'd be trying to shear the bolts as opposed to pulling out a tenuous thread

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[Thunderbox]

Surely the recoil forces on the PH scope blocks are forward and down: e.g. during recoil the scope slides forward and down, whilst the rifle body moves backwards and upwards.

The scope therefore pulls forward on the rear BA21 mount (to which it is locked by a stud), which in turn pulls on the No4 rearsight cross pin, but pushes the front block down and forward. Thus the two little BA screws are mostly experiencing a shear force and some compression, for which they are presumably more than adequate.

I think we also forget that, in the era these things were designed, 'scopes tended to be small and light, compared to the heavy monsters used today. The PH system seems to be sufficiently robust with a lightweight scope such as a Simmons Whitetail or the Enforcer's Pecar.