Newbie No32 Mk3 question

[Alpine270]

Hi everyone, I'm sure glad I stumbled upon your site while tring to find info on my gun. I picked up a No.4 T last year and am having dificulty ranging the No32 Mk3 scope. Windage turret is a bit stiff, but usable for a few clicks, elevation works good. I think someone messed with the drum adjustment on the elevation though. Dialed as far as it will go for 0, at 100 yards I'm about 5" high. Is there a coarse adjustment that I can make myself. I see screws and lock rings on each turret, but I certainly don't want to put a tool this beauty without knowing what I'm doing. From what I've seen so far, Peter Laidler appears to be writter of the gospel on these scopes, I would appreciate any help or suggestions from Peter or anyone else. Thanks, Alpine270.

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[enfield303t]

Alpine 270. If you need your scope repaired and seeing as you live in Canada to save you alot of hassle contact Wheaty on this site. Bearhunter just posted Wheaty just repaired one for him and apparently does fantastic work and his rates are very reasonable.

[Peter Laidler]

There IS a coarse adjustment but when you do it, remember that it is coarse. get a forked tool to slightly loosen the lead screw locking nut that is sat astride the centre lead screw. Adjust the lead screw just a smidgin (that is another REME Armourers technical term used to indicate a very small amount - as opposed to 'a dollop' that indicates a big amount.....) to achieve the desired rough setting, It'll be about 5 clicks worth of adjustment if you're 5" out at 100 yards or so. Then zero, then do your very final fine adjustments on the slipping scale drum. And then nip up that lead screw locking nut. Not tight....., just nip it up finger tight-ish

That is VERY briefly what happens. It's not exactly correct but it'll work.................. As a matter of interest, unless I've misunderstood you, if you're shooting at 100 yards the drum should be set at '1' and not 0

[Alpine270]

Thank you Peter, just so I'm clear, the lead screw and locking nut you are refering to is the one on the top of the drum, the ones that look similar to a No 32 Mk1, not the small brass ones on the opposite end, correct? To answer your question, with the slipping drum set at 1 in its current position I'm about 7 " high at 100 yds. With the turret cranked all the way up to where it stops turning (cross hairs as high as they will go in the scope), the slipping drum is actually beyond the "0" by a "dollop". This is why I think that someone has fiddled with the coarse adjustment.

[Brian Dick]

You should invest in Peter's telescope booklet. It's $15 well spent. I have them available if interested.

[Peter Laidler]

You're right Brian. Read the little book first Alpine where it's all set out in picture format. You need to study the book first, before you touch anything because if you touch those little basxxxxs on the underside and right hand side of the scope without releasing the 12(?)BA grub screws (that's another British Armourers technical term for not just small, but VERY fxxxxxg small), you'll be in the deep poo! And not only that, there are TWO of these little grub screws in each! So be warned.

The lead screw locking nuts sit astride each of the leadscrews in the centre of the rotating drums and lock the leadscrew over the collar in a radial plane

[Alpine270]

Thanks Peter, much appreciated! I will contact Brian about getting a copy of the No32 book. I know this gun has become a valuable collectors item (that I found at a yard sale for $250.00!, too bad that his kid had lost the bayonet & his wife tossed out the original transport case years ago), but as I think you mentioned in one of your other posts, these things should be out on the range where the belong. I have promised myself to hunt with it once a year, although it is just a wee bit heavier than most of my other deer guns.

[Alpine270]

Just recieved Peters No32 book in the mail from Brian Dick. Thank you Brian for the good service.

[Surpmil]

The bayonet is no loss, but you're quite close to a fellow makes reproduction rifle chests...

I've had some awfully good buys at sales and flea markets, but not quite as good as that.

[Peter Laidler]

Don't bust a gut about the lack of a bayonet either Alpine. The No4T wasn't scaled for a bayonet nor was one issued with a No4T.

No there wasn't ........, in case anyone tells you that there should be one packed into the chest...................