Bren Scope

[Peter Laidler]

This question has been answered in another thread and the short answer is NO!

What IS important is that so long as you have an uncut section between the locking shoulder (under the ejector) and the barrel seating in the body, then the rest is reasonably OK to within a reasonable tolerance. Providing that it's welded square and true on a length of solid butt slide.

In an IDEAL world, you'd need an uncut section between the locking shoulder and the front hooped/arch, directly in front of the barrel locking nut but that's a cut body at its very best. That way you have retained the magazine well AND breech block to barrel to CHS locking geometry

As for an L3A4 drawing, well that is the rear-sear UK spec M1919 Browning and you'll probably be best off finding them in the US or read Dolfs book