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    MkII Cone flash Hider

    Is the MkII cone flash hider and the front sight base all one piece or do they separate?
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    They were made in TWO parts, brazed together. Do they separate....? Yes, if you care to unbraze them. Incidentally, Enfield did unbraze them and used the foresight block part on the 7.62mm L4 barrel fluted flash eliminators. This is the reason why you'll see the CRD or JI or other manufacturers logos on much later L4 barrel flash eliminator assemblies. Waste not, want not and all that........

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    Thank you Peter.

    I am left handed and am making me a set of sights I can use on the opposite side.

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    I suppose you could rotate the backsight cursor through 180 degrees too. But your setting-up and machining of the foresight block to take the new securing pin will have to be very accurate. Personally, like the SA80/L85, I'd just learn to shoot it right handed - but each to his own

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    Quote Originally Posted by nineteenhundred View Post

    I am left handed and am making me a set of sights I can use on the opposite side.
    Didn’t the military have a rather quick solution for people who thought they were lefty shooters? ;-)

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    In the old days...but later we taught them how to best use their misguided unhandiness... Except when it wasn't possible, like the 84mm Carl Gustav...
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    We used to call them 'cack-handers'. I'd forgotten about the 84mm Charlie Gee Jim. The gun with the biggest bang you could ever imagine. Incidentally, it was the Mk2 Bren flash eliminator that was used as the flash eliminator on the shortie barrelled experimental Mk4 type Sten guns if you're ever tempted to make a replica anyone

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    Quote Originally Posted by browningautorifleicon View Post
    In the old days...but later we taught them how to best use their misguided unhandiness... Except when it wasn't possible, like the 84mm Carl Gustav...
    All joking aside, my 13yr old son.....with quite a bit of solid BREN MG time under his belt already, is truly messed up. He shoots “Right”, but is left-eye dominant, so he takes a truly bizarre stance when sighting a weapon. That said.....he’s damn good.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TactAdv View Post
    He shoots “Right”, but is left-eye dominant, so he takes a truly bizarre stance when sighting a weapon.
    Yes, we had those too. That's why the first thing I'd do in rifle one class was check for dominant eye...we had a guy shoot the PWT with an eyepatch from the FA kit looking like a pirate. He shot very well...
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    I think that we had a few cack-handers or left eye dominant shooters but as I seem to recall, in the 60's and well into the 70's, the MT wing sadists (the Military Training Wing) trainers didn't recognise anything non-standard. Not sexual orientation, religion, marital status, or ethnicity other that European. Nothing else - except what we called at the time, NATO standard! For the non-Infantry/Corps troops types attached to the Infantry Regiments, we had a Military Training morning or afternoon once a week. First a half hours Drill to loosen up a bit or run around the field. Then out in the field, classroom, field training area or ranges and by the end of the morning everyone shot '..... NATO standard'!

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