Why a charger bridge on a Lee Enfield? For an emergency rear sight, of course!

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So I finally make it to the shooting range to try CGN's David1974's No4, for which I bedded a replacement forend.

Of course, I didn't put a rear sight on it before leaving home, because that would be too clever, smart and the right thing to do.

So I find myself at the range with no rear sight to test someone else's rifle before sending it back. Wow.

Well there's no way I'm not testing it, so, here's yet another great use of a Lee Enfield charger bridge (not sure what the other great uses are,we could come up with a list!)

I had a decent grouping at 100 yards, so I'll call this one a success. :D


 
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You DO realise, Lou, that with some of the FRIENDS you already have, you don't need ENEMAS.

Sorry, "Enemies".

Gets confusing sometimes, depends on the quality!

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Nice-looking piece of work, Lou, but Duct Tape will hold it during a rain!

Just for interest, how did you find it to shoot with?

Something to keep in mind.......
 
And I wasted all that money on a new scope......I've even got all the necessary parts in that drawer in the kitchen.

Nice save though! :)
 
Thanks for the support, guys! Blond moment for sure. I don't want to mention "senior moment", because once I get to be called officially senior, I may not like that! But I've never been blonde, so... :D

Smellie, I found that surprizingly fun to shoot with. A larger peep, just a few inches away from my eye, seem to work well for me. Hmm, food for thought...

And thanks for the duct tape tip, I should always have that with me - but today I had to use what I had, and painters tape was the only one I had. Oh I did have a stapler but thought that wouldn't be appreciated by David1974...
 
I'm sorry you live so far from civilization you don't have any TV reception.

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While I have not used paper for a rear sight, I did make one out of wood for a Hunter who dropped his scope sighted rifle and crunched the scope. It was the first day of a three day camp, up in the mountains of B.C., and in my home area so I did not have a spare scope as I would have packed it I were hunting somewhere else. My serious hunting rifles always had the open sights left on them, and were zeroed for my ammunition.

He had removed the rear sight, but luckily a dovetail was still there so I carved one out of a piece of wood, complete with dovetail, and when it fit fairly tight, I blackened it over the fire. A small thin wooden wedge under the base made it secure, and we went a ways from camp and zeroed it a bit high at 100 yards by filing a notch with my Leatherman tool file.

Next day, he shot an eight point Elk at about 125 yards with it. When he got home, he put the original rear sight back on it, and has never hunted Big Game without having a rifle with open sights on it since.

Reminds me of a show where the "Canada in the Rough" people come to Manitoba, and the scope on the hunter's rifle gets broken. At a Moose Camp, hundreds of miles from Winnipeg, thousands of miles from home, and not enough thought to pack a spare scope. So, they tried to get a Moose within bow and arrow range. They called one in to about 60 or 70 yards but could not shoot as it was out of range. No Moose, but a little more preparation by putting in a spare scope, or having open sights on the rifle would have salvaged the hunt and the episode. Why anyone would go through the expense of a hunting trip and skimp on not taking along a spare scope or making provisions for emergency sights is beyond me.

Of course, one of the hunters in another episode of "Canada in the Rough" was lacking in preparation on a B.C. mountain hunt - this time in physical conditioning. It is one thing to breathe oxygen rich air at a hundred feet above sea level, but at 3000 feet or more up a mountain, the air is a lot thinner. The hunter climbs up a trail, and plops down, and exclaims " (Gasp) Sometimes, you (Huff, Puff) just have to (Gasp, Puff) sit down and (Huff, Gasp, Big Breath) admire the view."
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"...I had one that..." That an eleven cent Lee-Enfield? snicker.
"...green parkerizing..." No such thing. The green tinge is caused by a chemical reaction from long term storage in cosmoline. Lee-Enfields weren't parkerized either.
 
Cantom, the colour was just a result of the flash on my cheap camera - regular finish on that one.

Buffdog, that's a great story, shows that necessity is the mother of invention :)
 
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