Long Lee Enfield/CLLE WW1 Sniper rifle.

[Gil Boyd]

Nice link here for an overview:

[harlton]

Thanks Gil, nice rifles eh!, I love em. Smle too but the long rifles really float my boat. All the best Ian.

[harlton]

Hi Roger,
Sorry again for the delay, I'm still waiting on a replacement Battery, so I'm going to keep this short in the hope I actually get to post it this time. I'll be only too happy to send copies of what I have to you by hook or by crook. On the French making up rifles for us, I got that info out of one or more of my old Books that I have, so once I find it I'll let you know. I have a picture of a smle with the APX scope conversion, whole rifle, so no confusion there. The CLLE is in Martin Pegler's Sniper rifles Page 33. If you look, as I know you will, you'll notice the little short rear finger guard, with the four rivit's in it, so I doubt that is converted to 25.2"s as it wouldn't make much sense, but the shot is only of the scope area, I'll send you the picture. Some of the other pictures I have are a mix of in circulation, some from books, so from picture sellers, and other from local WW1 Battalion library pictures.
I too find early WW1 the most fascinating period for sniper rifles, I wish I could find scopes as you do, but I haven't even seen one for sale at Canadian gun shows, the exception, two Warner & Swasey scopes but both without mounts, of course a few winch A5's, that I wish I'd purchased now. I have one and as a Target scope it's great for that, but not the best once I've looked thru, compared with my german scopes, re field of view. my Dr Gerard B3 is great for the era I think.
I'm the same on the No4T's, I like them and wish I'd purchased one, back when I should have for around $1200 complete and as new, but I didn't. A guy I thought a lot of had one, and I've built a careful replica that I enjoy, but wouldn't go any further.
The WW1 Large bore scoped rifles, clandestine meetings trading glass for rubber, and making all those other scopes and rifle combo's work, plus the catch up they did was Brillant ! I'll be in touch next week, when this has a new Battery and hopefully I've found all my info to send you. Thanks for all again Roger, Best regards Ian.

[Roger Payne]

Hi Ian,
No worries. Take your time. I shall look forward to seeing anything you can lay your hands on as & when. No hurry.

Best,

R.

[harlton]

Hi Ian,
No worries. Take your time. I shall look forward to seeing anything you can lay your hands on as & when. No hurry.

Best,

R.

Hi Roger,
I have found my photo's, what do you suggest as a way of getting them to you, some I'm sure you've seen already, hopefully not all. Most are from Canadian Local Battalion museums. I saw one shot this week in which a Canadian sniper is posing with a CLLE so that's another, I hadn't noticed it before. Anyhow You can personal message me with your email and I can send them that way or I can load then onto a disc or stick and pop it in the mail. If you wish I'll have another go at uploading to this site, but for some reason I'm not having any luck tried all suggested and so far no go, plus the images will be reduced size wize considerably.
I have managed to find the second full length shot of a smle with APX scope that I have and fittings, or the old book that contains the reference, it may be in my Binocular stuff too, as some of that goes into quite some detail about Germany trading glass for rubber an our problems with optic's, still looking, my apologies for being so slow.
All the Best, Ian P.S. How did you make out with your fuess scope and mount, well I hope.

[Roger Payne]

Hi Ian,
This all sounds very interesting & I'm sure much of it has escaped me up to now. I'll pm you with my email address. I think that will be the easiest way of going about things. My IT skills are limited to say the least (my kids would express it rather more bluntly!), but over the years I've managed to suss out posting on here - though I've had periods in the past where I have had problems too - so if you would like I can always try & post the photo's you have onto the forum. I think it would probably be a safe bet to say that a lot of forummers would like to see them. Just a thought. Anyway, I'll pm you.

Best.

[Promo]

I would appreciate it, it you could also post the pictures here or give Roger the permission to post them on your behalf, if you don‘t know how to post them here. I would be highly interested in those aswell.

[harlton]

Hi Promo,
I'm slowly shipping Roger my photo's, and He is free to use them as he see's fit, however I feel like a bit of a **** putting it all on Roger, if you want copies and send me you're email address I'll be happy to forward them on. No clue why this laptop doesn't work, it's a Lenovo, my kids brought it for me for Christmas! nice of them but the worst computer I have ever owned, it's nothing but trouble from day one.

Regards Ian

[Roger Payne]

Hi Ian,
Take your time with the pix. I shan't be able to do anything with them for a week anyway as I shall have very limited internet access. However, as you are quite happy for me to upload the photo's to the forum I will do this once I'm back from France. My offspring will be around meantime, but no use expecting any help from them! If Promo is in a position to post any sooner that's fine with me if it is with you.

Best.

[Surpmil]

For hosting and sharing photos Harlton, ImageShack is probably about the best out there now, but no longer free. VillagePhotos is another one that was free and may still be.

Once your photos are loaded to such a site you can make your albums private or public. If public only people you give the address link to will be able to find the photos.

Anytime you want to share photos you just send the link address.

Helps if you organize your photos well by subject in separate albums, then you can just send the link to the particular album you want to share, not everything you've got.