I posted this earlier(whole thread is nine posts down from this one), gun is sold, but I can make more
Thought some of you might find this interesting. I just finished building this Enfield No 4 Mk 1 (T) sniper rifle with transit case. I researched the rifle, scope and transit case pretty thoroughly. The transit case was frustrating because all the blueprints I found were barely legible so a lot of guesswork and extrapolation was involved. I tried to stay as true to the original as possible...brass flat tip screws, organic milk paint, correct colors but drew the line at dovetail joints, and if you can find original hardware , it would cost a couple hundred dollars. I bought a replica No 32 scope and found a copy of "Telescope, Sighting No 32" by Peter Laidler. A more complicated collimating, mounting and bore sighting process could not be designed even if one tried. The steel was exceptionally hard. The "base pads" were supposed to be sweated on before drilling and tapping...Loctite 380 does the same. It literally took me all day...from 9 in the morning to 11 at night, to install the scope. It involved numerous trial and error filings of the base pads to get the scope over the bore...not to mention milling the receiver. Anyway, it's all done and it turned out pretty nice.
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