Originally Posted by
John Sukey
On a side note, the complaint about the No5 not holding zero was due to the fact that post war, the government wanted to adopt the No5 as the standard issue rifle while the rest of the world had gone to self loading rifles might have had something to do with that.
I have not fired too many No5s but between myself and everyone else I have known who shot No5 rifles I have not heard of any evidence of "wandering zero" outside of some issues apparently with prototypes.....Prototypes naturally having more ODD problems than production rifles as thats sort of the whole point of not going straight from blueprint to production.
I own firearms not to fight against my government, but to ensure I will not have to.