Not an Enfield scope but it did the put the No32 into retirement..

[Brian Dick]

One of the twelve in the USA was exported back to England several years ago. A feat in itself, (long story). It's a fact since I was the exporter. I'll have to be happy with my Australian SR98 which was also supposed to be exported back to England but DDTC wouldn't approve export of a current issue sniper rifle so I bought it. It's one of only ten, (sn. 10010), imported via AI when they had an office in Oak Ridge, Tennessee before their bankruptcy. It took me years to complete the CES including the original transit chest which was still in Portsmouth and had been purchased by the gent who was supposed to receive the rifle in the UK. You out there Simon?

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[muffett.2008]

Don't you just love all these new little twists, life used to be fun once.

[Lithy]

Very strange coincidence this thread should pop up now as I have just done the deal on one of the four AWs used in trials by the Oz Army in the mid '90s.

[Simon P]

Is this the type of bracket?

By Sword and Musket L42 Trials Rifle in 7.62mm

[Peter Laidler]

Nope. And that rifle is a complete figment of someones not so fertile imagination. What you technical people would call 'a comple e load of bxxxxxxs'. If anyone knew about this 'trials' sniper rifle, surely it'd be the Trials and Development wing at Warminster. Maybe I missed that page.

[Simon P]

That's exactly what I thought, but have never seen that type of bracket before, I wonder who made it?

[PrinzEugen]

Is that a numbered enforcer scope on it?

£3750 - that's quite, er, strong!

[Peter Laidler]

The long brackets were made as a bit of an interim, some say for the special forces, to evaluate other telescopes. The Leatherwood was one of them. S&B were another but..... anyway! But by then the L42 had had its day and in any case, at the time the replacement trials were well under way resulting in the adoption of the L96 in '84/85

If you want to know what the L96 S&B scope mount looks like, it's clearly shown on the thread, in the CES.

[bigduke6]

I found the thread I was looking for, and the pic of the bracket, will ask the owner if he would be so kind to post a better pic.

[Simon]

Yep Brian , Still here, still lurking, still smarting from that one!