Winchester

enefgee said:
Holy crap! That is in amazing condition. I've never seen one with that much finish, that was available, which is why I haven't bought one. I tried to get Jim to sell me his minty one, but no joy.
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This one, in fact, belong to 'Jim' back when Dave Clark wrote his book. Hence, it being one in the book.

Yes, great condition, but rumour has it 'Jim' still has a couple even nicer ones! b:

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Arcosdad said:
I'm not clear on how a sling swivel on an early LE would be in the way of the volley sights. When the front sight is rotated upward are you not looking across it far above the swivel via the rear sight offset from the safety?
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I do not know about how it was done on SMLE, but front volley sight arm on a P14 was often pointed down, not up, often that front bead was lower than lower edge of the stock, for extreme ranges - so a centered sling would likely foul the sighting view - hence, like an SMLE, the P-14 also had off-set sling swivels, so the sling hung to the right of centre-line of that rifle. That portion of the prints was not altered when M1917 were made (so I read) - so they never had volley sights, but got the off-set sling loops, anyways.
 
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Ah, that makes total sense...I hadn't considered that to shoot high, that forward pin would be rotated lower. I was picturing it in the up position. Thanks for the clarification. I guess they had lots of short Lee swivels available so onto the PCMR carbines they went.
 
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