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Me neither

Pat must have an idea what that weird looking rear sight concoction is, c'mon Pat give us a clue is it telescopic or what?

I still can't find it Bob,tried doing what Don said but obviously made a bollox of it as usual. Is it a SUIT sight (Sight Unit Infantry Trilux)? About 5" long mounted on the top cover, it had a small magnification of about X3 I think and a single downward pointing aiming point that glowed red at night on turning a knob on top, powered by a small radioactive source. They were issued for NI tours from late 70's onwards, the main disadvantage being they produced a tunnel vision effect when looking through them and you could miss things going on outside your restricted view. The SA80 came with a similar setup called SUSAT. There's a seller on MILWEB that does all things SLR and sells them with a different power system fitted as the radioactive stuff has died and is probably not elfin safety friendly these days! Other than that I haven't a clue as I can't see the thing being a computer chod!

About the rear site. https://www.forgottenweapons.com/x8e1-x8e2-slr-manual/

Nige thanks for that mate, must admit I had not seen anything like it before, x1 optical sight with sight guard. Pat the one were on about is the type B in Nigel's post mate.

Try this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_1L6wyXEEU  

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That Rupert just sounds like a Harry Enfield "Chumley Warner" sketch! 🤣 

He looks a bit like old Terry Thomas with that gap in his teeth, remember that old picture Privates Progress. 😀 

Spot on there Bob. Owd Terry came from a poor working class background but none better playing the high class toff. "I say, Hello!" while stroking his well waxed moustache.

I never knew that Dave, you always imagined him as an old Etonian or something similar.

Never seen that one before Bob, every day's a school day as they say! 😜 

Top class bull shitter owd Terry! Reminds me of a geezer who used to attend regularly the Embassy Club grab a granny neet in Sheffield. Allus wore crab air badge on blazer cravat around Gregory grey slacks n Fred Astaire dancin pods finished off wi crab air waxed tache o,er iz top lip and used to impress the owd slappers. Kunt ad never bin in the forces n in reality wuz a builders labourer ruff fukker. The lads n me used ta say, "aye aye, wing commander Wankers o,er theer" n shout, "Chocs Away Old Chap!" 😜 

Wonder if old Arthur English attracted the monsters in the Rat Pit Eh?

A reckon the lads used iz tie ta wipe their arses with Bob, soft to the touch!

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