Fitting a scope!

The Enforcer, as standard, was supplied without a scope, rear sight or Bipod and many Police forces bought the 'basic package' when funds were low, and when the 'next years' budget came thru' the Force Armourer would make a local purchase order and buy his 'personal favourite' brand of scope and accessories.

A wide variety of scopes have been found on Enforcers.

Example - Enforcer No112 was bought by West Midlands Police and had an H&K scope fitted on a 1-piece mount.

Example - Enforcer No290 was bought by Cambridgeshire Police and fitted with a Nikko Sterling 6 x 32 and an AJP 4/47 rear sight

Obviously the Scope offered by Enfield was the Pecar 4-10 x 45 and most were supplied with that one.

Not a lot of people know that Enfield did not have enough No4 actions to produce the number of Enforcers that the Police ordered and they had to go out onto the 'secondhand market' and buy up No4's for conversion - a number were actually Savage and Long Branch rifles, so you may just be lucky enough to find an "American Enforcer" or a "Canadian Enforcer"

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Personally I bore sight at 25 yds.

step 1: Center the reticule optically, you have no way of knowing how far off center a used scope is! (you don't need to be at the range & the scope doesn't even need to be mounted.)

Click all the way Left, then, counting the clicks, go all the way right. Divide by 2 & go back that many clicks.

Repeat with elevation.

Your cross hairs are now optically centered.

Step 2: Set up at 25 yds with the loosely mounted scope.

Mount & clamp (somehow) the rifle & mounted scope. Cargo straps over sandbags are my favorite.

As you start the final tightening, alternating opposite screws on front & rear mounts left-right, left right (just like torquing down an ally cylinder head) watch the cross-hairs. Half a turn all round & look, step & repeat. If they drift off shim the un tightened rings to bring them back on center.

Now make the final adjustment with the turrets to bore sight the two together just as BRITRIFLES describes.

Step 3: Unclamp the rifle.

Step 4: Rest the rifle on a bench on sandbags. You want the bags where you'd grasp the stock.

Fire 2 warming & fouling shots, off target.

Fire a 3 round group. adjust 1/2 of what you think is the full correction needed.

Fire 3 rounds & adjust again.

Keep repeating till the cross hairs are in the center of the group fired.

Basically its a sneak upon it technique so you don't over correct then get into backlash & other nasty stuff.

I can tape an X on the Renault 4 Van at the end of the garden and set up the rifle on a table in the lounge. I do have a small spirit level that may be useful for checking the rifle is not canted off verticle.

I'll get it fitted up Saturday and hopefully a range test in the afternoon. 

The only uncertainty; until I try it all on the rifle is the ring height/scope clearance at the front end. The Armoury recommended low Leupold rings. a bit expensive but nicely made. Their guy has Enfields so should be OK.

I'll take photos and post after the weekend.

One of the reasons for doing this to the No8 is that many of our club are now into the .22 Hunter matches. This is 25 small targets, one shot on each. These members seem to change their gear each week! Turning up with wind vanes and bigger scopes and don't even hold the rifle to fire; it's all in a bench rest rig and just touch the trigger. That type of gear doesn't really interest me; but there is a "leisure rifle" class with slightly bigger targets. I think it might be fun to see if I can surprise a few folk in competition with a 70 year old military trainer and a sandbag!

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this! its like using one of those ring front sights for bullseye.