Ok a friend bought a 1915 No1 MkIII* sportorized rifle and wants to mount a scope on it. Now another friend has a "side mount" scope that he says is for a Lee Enfield and will work. But something is clicking in my brain that the receivers for the older 1915 enfields were rounded and no made to accept a side mount without some work, is this true? Now this rifle has the volley sights on the barrel and so one of the ATI no gunsmithing mounts wont work either from what I'm seeing. So the "cheapest" way would be to drill and tap the top of the receiver correct?
Scope Mounting on a 1915 No1 MkIII*
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Kayser Sose
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On the serious note... go to a gunsmith.
There ya go, gotta be about three cents there, all told
There ya go, gotta be about three cents there, all told
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Kayser Sose
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If the rifle has the "volley sights" I would find another rifle to mount that scope! Doing so on the one in question would DROP the value of the one he has!
I would not bubba a nice No.1MkIII with volley sights just to add a scope. The side mount your friend is talking about may be for the No.4 Enfield. I haven't seen a side mount for a No.1. My advice is if you really want a scoped Enfield then buy one already bubba'd and leave the originals intact. You can buy sporterized Enfields for like $25 a dozen in Canada anyway. Right? 
I just got the S&K no drill mount for a 1943 Lithgow No. 1 Mk III* and it looks to be great! I am going to try and get it together this weekend. From what I have read, these are one of the best options out there without messing up your receiver.
Ian
Ian
Thank you, SMITSAUCE!
I was going to suggest the S&K mount for these rifles, but you did a fine job of it for me.
They are a LITTLE fiddly to install, but they work FINE. Gunsmith is going to charge you $20 a hole to D&T. So that`s times 3, which is 60 bucks. Plus another 20 for that horrid TO-1 base. Plus rings. And the top mount doesn't work worth BEANS: to narrow to be really stable and it needs special rings that work only on .22s or on THIS base.
S&K Mount is FAR better....... AND you can move your scope from rifle to rifle.
BTW, their Number 4, 5 and Pattern 1914, M-1917 bases are absolutely the Cat's Meow! I have both and use them.
I was going to suggest the S&K mount for these rifles, but you did a fine job of it for me.
They are a LITTLE fiddly to install, but they work FINE. Gunsmith is going to charge you $20 a hole to D&T. So that`s times 3, which is 60 bucks. Plus another 20 for that horrid TO-1 base. Plus rings. And the top mount doesn't work worth BEANS: to narrow to be really stable and it needs special rings that work only on .22s or on THIS base.
S&K Mount is FAR better....... AND you can move your scope from rifle to rifle.
BTW, their Number 4, 5 and Pattern 1914, M-1917 bases are absolutely the Cat's Meow! I have both and use them.
Was it possible to get a No.1 MkIII* with a shorter buttstock? Maybe not factory made but done by an armorer? This rifle has a much shorter stock than normal yet still has the normal military metal buttplate. If done by a bubba it was done pretty well. Supposedly the old guy who owned it said he was issued the rifle during WWII? Which is weird being that it's 1915 manufacture with a 1932 replacement barrel. Anyways the guy is super short and thus really short arms. So thus the buttstock was shortened.
The volley sight on this rifle is really different though. It even has windage adjustments on it.
My friend bought the rifle for $160 off another friend of ours.
The volley sight on this rifle is really different though. It even has windage adjustments on it.
My friend bought the rifle for $160 off another friend of ours.
As far as I know, they came in short,regular and long. You can get them at Gunparts corp. in the states if you can't find one to fit your needs here on the EE.
As for the volley sights, the rear sight on the barrel is the regular sight and some were adjustable at one point and then these were staked to not move anymore. I imagine it was done to stop them from getting bumped or something in battle and throwing you way off at long range.
Look up volley sights on google. You will see that there was a flip up little aperature arm on the safety and the corresponding dial with sighting pin on the left hand side of the forestock just ahead of the mid band. The sight base had ranges that a pointer was dialed to for the really long range shots.
I imagine someone else will fill in more detail...
Cheers,
Ian
As for the volley sights, the rear sight on the barrel is the regular sight and some were adjustable at one point and then these were staked to not move anymore. I imagine it was done to stop them from getting bumped or something in battle and throwing you way off at long range.
Look up volley sights on google. You will see that there was a flip up little aperature arm on the safety and the corresponding dial with sighting pin on the left hand side of the forestock just ahead of the mid band. The sight base had ranges that a pointer was dialed to for the really long range shots.
I imagine someone else will fill in more detail...
Cheers,
Ian
there is no indent space on the forestock for a round dial. By windage on the volley sight I mean it had a little dial you turn to move the actual sight on the volley sight left and right. And this was a windage sight in front of the receiver.
