One, for most infantry engagements, was set at 300 yards. The rear sights consisted of a flip-over L-shaped piece of metal with double apertures. So too stamped metal fabrication composed the sides and floor plate of the rudimentary magazine. The trigger guard, like the trigger itself, was a simple metal stamping. A sheet metal trigger used a simple trigger-block push button safety to prevent the trigger from being pulled. It had a slab-sided, angular receiver and fixed five-round magazine loaded through the top of the open action with standard chargers. 3-the U.S.-made Pattern 14 then being moved from Home Guard to regular army use-with a simpler turned down bolt handle and its modified Mauser action as the basis. The action of the prototype British rifle started from a greatly simplified Rifle No. 1936 7.5mm bolt action service rifle, which France had belatedly adopted just before WWII broke out, and was therefore unavailable in any great numbers for the French army equipped with no less than seven different models, requiring logistic circumlocutions akin to those of the UK. The first simplified rifle version resembled nothing so much as the French MAS Mle. It had been tentatively slated for replacement before WWI, but the outbreak of war had removed such plans from consideration. 303/7.7mm service cartridge had to be retained simply because the midst of wartime was hardly the opportune moment to consider a change to a rimless cartridge. The long serving if also outdated, rimmed. While details are scanty and limited to a few prototypes, the simplified rifle appeared in a couple differing versions. If the BESAL promised a cheaper LMG than the Bren, one that could be built in dispersed workshops or factories that had never previously produced small arms, so too the substitute standard rifle. Engineers created even more radically simplified alternatives to the service rifle. 303” caliber rifles thus freed up went to the reconstitution and expansion of the regular army. 4 Mk.I manually operated turn-bolt service rifle, the Design Department also developed prototypes of substitute standard “Simplified rifles.” As aforementioned, the rifle crisis led to purchase of U.S. While Enfield moved to improve the quality of the No.
Far from a skeletonized stock, a rubber butt-pad might be in order. I would expect this “lightweight” rifle to equal the 5 in recoil. The overall resemblance to the later rifle No.5 aka “Jungle Carbine” is noteworthy.
This may or may not indicate controlled-feed Ruger Model 77 rifles, for instance, have a similar extractor but are considered “push-feed” types. It’s interesting to note that the bolt is more-or-less a straight Mauser type, complete with non-rotating extractor. The reason for the “peeps” is obvious they could be made with appropriate drill bits, and then polished a bit- a notch rear sight would require milling. It was not liked by the troops, and was soon superseded by a more orthodox adjustable rear peepsight. Note that the flipover-type rear sight also appeared on one production variant of the No. It may have been prototyped in 1942, but I suspect that it was most likely an “emergency” design that dated to 1940, when invasion was considered a viable threat.
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