No4 MK1 T's AT THE RANGE

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Brought the two T's I recently purchased to the range today. The first one tried was the all matching unit...the 1945 Bsa with the MK3 scope ( I had a thread about this one earlier). Scope windage was set on zero and elevation was set at 100 yds which was the range I was shooting at. First grouping went way low.....eventually had to set scope at the 300yd mark and windage had to be moved about 4 clicks to be on target at 100yds. I was a bit surprised that setting the drum at the 100yd mark my point of impact was way low. Best group was 2.75". These were all 5 shot groups....If we had shot typical 3 shot groups results would have tightened up.
The second "T" was the scopeless one I recently purchased, a 1945 BSA as well (still waiting for the scope...it's supposedly available). I had a recent thread about this one "No4 MK1 T RESCUED". My friend and I both shot it first with open sights at 100yds.....his group was a bit better than mine, it was about 3.5" and that being a 5 shot group. I thought that was pretty decent. For the heck of it I threw the Mk3 scope on from the other rifle, windage needed a bit more adjustment and had to come up on the elevation drum to 400yds to be on the bull at 100yds. Best group was close to 2.5". Ammo used for both guns was commercial softpoint.
It started snowing just as we started shooting......I will do more in-depth accuracy tests later on and will be using good proper ball ammo and maybe even some handloads that I'll make up. Any thoughts on the all matching set as to why the elevation had to be set at 300yds to be on at 100yds and also why the windage was not able to be set at zero???? I need to order Peter's book on the No 32 scope's....I'll be doing that ASAP.

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