Tomorrow I will be mostly

[450 Martini]

Yesterday i was mostly in london watching the trooping of the colour at Horse Guards, then a quick trip to the national army museum. Tomorrow after work i'm fetching some new ww1 trousers. and on tuesday i'm fetching a blank firing lewis gun from kent. On saturday i'm parading at the royal fusilers museum in warwick with my ww1 reenactment group to celebrate antelope day. I may get a chance to shoot on sunday.

[Christel]

Yesterday i was mostly in london watching the trooping of the colour at Horse Guards, then a quick trip to the national army museum. Tomorrow after work i'm fetching some new ww1 trousers. and on tuesday i'm fetching a blank firing lewis gun from kent. On saturday i'm parading at the royal fusilers museum in warwick with my ww1 reenactment group to celebrate antelope day. I may get a chance to shoot on sunday.

[Dougan]

Zeroing is always fun. I had shimmed the rings on the M65A to get the 'scope on mechanical zero however my calculations were out by .008" so the rifle shot high for it's 200m zero, I will correct it when I get a moment.

The rear tube is 24,85mm and the cheek piece and butt pad assembly just slide on and lock in place so it is certainly easy enough to build an alternative system that can be swapped out with the original, I have built enough butt plates in my time and have the materials for the rest so a nice curved aluminium cheek piece may be the way to go although if I had a spare original cheek piece it would just chop that up to suit....

That's handy then...you can be as inventive as you like...and another project is just what you need right now razz

When you get round to it, don't forget the piccies...

[Dougan]

Today I shot my new (to me) Musgrave. It shoots well, provided the nut behind the butt's up to the job (had a "few" problems with the wind on Magpie Alley at 600x...), even when fed el cheapo Seller and Belliot 147gr factory ammo.

I've fitted an iris foresight (courtesy of those nice people at HPS, only £100) but the rest of the rifle's pretty much as good as it needs to be. For some reason the ladder foresight needs 15MOA on it just to get a "normal" elevation on the rearsight, though... Roll on the Imperial!

We have a club member who does quite well with an old Musgrave - It's nice and compact for a TR rifle...what sort of stock has yours got? (you can post a picture if you like razz )

About the front sight - If you intend to use it for your elevation adjustments, don't forget that you'll need to drop it 23 minutes to get to 1000 yards...ideally, there'd be 35 minutes of elevation on it at your 200 yard zero.