A Real No4T - No question !!

[Alan de Enfield]

A picture from the book "D-Day, A battle for Normandy" by Antony Beevor

ISBN 978-0-670-88703-3

Grooved handguard, hollowed out bolt handle.

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[Peter Laidler]

This is a good example of real use. They didn't like taking the telescope off the rifles in case they lost their accuracy but this was a bit of a myth, left over from the old P'14 days. One of our tests was to fit the tele and bracket, collimate onto a chart, then remove and refit a few times and the grat had to fall within a......... anyway, they were good at remaining 'on' when the scope was removed and replaced. This is the reason why we used to drum into the snipers during the course that you MUST screw up the rear thumbscrew LAST. To ensure regularity

This was not the case with a non-matched bracket though. Or, dare I say it, a mix and match set unless the replacement bracket has been fitted properly.

Does anyone have a book published in the 70's called 'The Road To Rome'. In there, there is a poignant picture of a No4 stuck nose-down at the top of a grave with a caption to the effect '..... a soldier killed in action buried at the roadside with his rifle marking his makeshift grave awaits the follow-up Graves registration team'

Look carefully and you'll see that this is a scopeless No4T

[Beerhunter]

A picture from the book "D-Day, A battle for Normandy" by Antony Beevor

Father Christmas brought a copy for me. As far as I am concerned it is miss-named as it covers the whole of the Battle for Normandy through to the capitulation of Paris.

[limpetmine]

During my display this past Black Friday in Tennessee, a fellow stopped by who was a Brit ex-pat. He said that they drilled into him that the knobs had to be made up half turn at a time, front to back, with the back one last.
PL, have you every heard such a thing? Or is this just gunshow myth?
I should post some pictures of that event, it was a good weekend.

[jona]

Looks like he is using a German pull through.

[Peter Laidler]

Hi Limpet, actually, your man is dead right. We used to teach them to do both up finger tight first THEN fully tighten up the front then fully tighten the rear knob last. Just so long as the rear knob was tightened last.

That's some memory of your man to remember that after all these years

[Terry Hawker]

Thought that photo looked familiar...

After a short search I discovered it on page 258 of Martin Pegler's "Out of Nowhere - A History of the Military Sniper", a 2004 release from Osprey Publishing. This rather interesting volume on the subject is crammed with period photos, some familiar, some not, but I think the book pays for itself, if for no other reason, with the quality, close-up, color photos of the sniping rifles from different countries and eras.

Books are like ammo...You just can't have too much of either.

Happy reading,

Terry

[PrinzEugen]

A can't see a stacking sling swivel not clearing the loop! It's a FAKE - see even in 1944 they were at it!

[Badger]

A can't see a stacking sling swivel not clearing the loop! It's a FAKE - see even in 1944 they were at it!

good one ....

You mean sling swivel?

Regards,
Badger

[Surpmil]

And as you once pointed out to me Peter, that photo in "The Road To Rome" is of a Trials No4 converted to No4(T) specs. The photographer was a Sgt. Fox and the caption of the photo was "3 British Graves near the Summit of Damano'. According to the IWM, the photo was taken on 28 or 29 Feb. 1944.