Scoped No.4 Lee Enfield "Sussex"

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I wasn't sure whether this belongs in gunsmithing, milsurp, or sporting rifles, so I chose this one. I picked up a nice "Sussex" sporter from a fellow gun nut some time ago, and these tired old eyes do better with glass than open sights, so I fabricated a scope mount and put glass on it. I don't know how many of you have scoped Lee Enfields, but I'm sure I'm not the only one who's encountered the problem of cheek weld. As most of you probably know, the sniper variant had a removable cheek piece. Even with a low mount and rings, I still found my head waving in the breeze trying to acquire a decent sight picture. Some time ago, I made a cheek riser, but it wasn't that good, and it didn't allow me to remove the bolt for cleaning. Here's my second solution. I've made this one both removable and adjustable. Where the dowels go into the stock, I have two flush mounted 5/16" grub screws securing it at whatever height I adjust the riser to. I now have perfect eye relief for me, and I'm checking it out at the range this Sunday. If I had to do it again, I'd do an even better job, but it'll do for this fall hunt. If any of you decide to copy this, contact me and I'll tell you what errors and potential solutions I encountered. Any feedback, pro or contra would be welcome.
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That is a novel solution and seems like you put a lot of thought into it. Did you know that the old #4mk1T rifles had a cheek piece to correct the cheek weld problem? Fabricating one of those may have been an easier job. That being said you did do a nice neat job and your colour match is very nice.
 
umcoles said:
That is a novel solution and seems like you put a lot of thought into it. Did you know that the old #4mk1T rifles had a cheek piece to correct the cheek weld problem?
I think I mentioned the sniper rifles in the body of the text. The problem is that to form a cheek piece like that, you need gouges (which I don't have). It was easier to make a true flat with a router, and build from that. As I said, it may be inelegant, but it does work wonderfully.
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Ah, re-reading the post is see you are saying that the old type cheek rest wasn't high enough. I meant no offense though, you did a nice neat job of the cheek piece you did make. In fact it looked like it was more challenging to build.
 
No offense taken. I have to tell you that everyone at the range who put it up their shoulder found that it gave perfect cheek weld and eye relief. As an aside, my handloaded 150 gr. Speers were giving me nickel sized 5 round groups at 100m.
 
You know, i was using Hornady interlock .312 dia 150's for the last few years and those were good. But i put together a series of Speer loads using the same powder charge 41 grains IMR 4895 and found that the .311 dia 150 gr Speers gave superior groups too. I am planning on shooting off the last of those Hornady loads and making Speer my new pet load. I am using a Pattern 14 ERA, I added a cheek piece and running a Leupold 3x9.
 
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