No.4T modified rear sight.

[Micheal Doyne]

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Here are my two rifles, this mod is very much post service but functional. I based it on descriptions by PL and others.

[CINDERS]

Seems the bolt is dragging on the sight # 1 pic (I think its called the cursor happy to be corrected)

[Micheal Doyne]

Sort of, that rifle is a mk2, and with the bolt head release at the back it is a tad more fiddly to get out particularly as I had a rather bulkier sight fitted the other day. I need to touch up the finish a tad. With the L1A1 or an L13A1 it works well.

[Roger Payne]

IIRC when I started doing the mod the bolt head sometimes caught on the edge of the cursor, hence the little bit of meat removed from cursor as well as the bottom underside of the sight leaf.

[Micheal Doyne]

Roger,

How much of the cursor did you remove? I presume you didn’t go all the way through the back plate?

[Roger Payne]

Michael, no, I just 'dished' it slightly using a half round file, & the bead blasted it, parkerised it & re-suncorited it.

[mrclark303]

The alternative was to remove the back sight or clean from the muzzle as some snipers preferred not to remove the scope once zeroed. A trials No4(T) I owned had dents in bolt face where it had been cleaned with a rod from the muzzle.

Not sure I would want to do that in the field, no backup sight option dosent seem like a great idea if things go south!