Diopter Rear Sights: UK vs. Euro (Well German / Swiss Really)
Sights & Optics
•
15m
By public request, a minor treatise on diopter rearsights - particularly contrasting the design of a W+F K-diopter for a Schmidt-Rubin K31 with a Parker-Hale 5C for a Lee-Enfield No.4 and a modern RPA Trakker.
Also featuring an awfully chintzy table cloth that doesn't belong to the Bloke, but he wishes it did :)
Up Next in Sights & Optics
-
Very Rare and Mostly Pointless: the B...
The very early production MkI Bren light machine guns were made with two dovetail brackets on the left side of the receiver. The rear one was for the standard rear sight, and the front one was to accommodate two types of optical sights. A mounting for the No.32 telescopic sight (the same one used...
-
ZF-41: Germany's Worst Sniper Scope
One of the pieces of feedback the German military got from the invasion of Poland in 1939 was a desire for a squad-level designated marksman in each unit. This would be a man with the best shooting skills of the unit, but not actually a fully trained sniper, and he should be equipped with a light...
-
What's Up With Norway and Military Sc...
Aside from the German widespread issue of the ZF-41 type scope, I have only come across three other military uses of long eye relief optics - and they are all Norwegian! One is simply Norwegian reuse of surrendered German K98k-ZF41 scopes, including updating them to .30-06 in the 1950s (these wer...
