Bedding the T

[Peter Laidler]

As usual, you're right Bindi. The accuracy test was the rule. Sometimes a sniper rifle just would not perform. No matter what you did. For these rifles we had to put the accuracy target, rifle fired off the Enfield rest, countersigned by the Out Inspector and the shooter plus the reason for submission to workshop (usually the snipers comments via the unit Armourer Sergeant would do) into an envelope and put that together with the condemnation certificate in an envelope attached to the rifle for its return to Ord.

The workshop at the RSSD would inspect it and then send it to the certified disposals group who'd give it the chop. Here's a little wheeze we used to do occasionally. If it was definately in for the chop, we'd return it incomplete with a 'stores to follow' note in the paperwork. So if it was to be FTR'd or whatever at a large Base workshop, they'd call in the rest of the stuff. But if it was, as usually the case, going for the chop, we'd keep the rest of the kit and 'dispose' of it locally. After all, one REME In examiner is as good as the next, so why double check the first with a second opinion? This holding back the remainder of the CES was purely to save a lot of time and effort you understand