Mr. Baxter took my BSA and it is well on the way to being perfect. Bedded the barrel, head space check, new front balde sight, NOS stock (beech) a sniper style leather sling, triam=ngular sniper swivel and a matching cheek piece. Once I bolt the repro SARCO scope and mount on it, it will be a nice T replica. Could not happier with the work. Here is is, next to a real T.
We used a -0.060 front sight blade today to correct this rifles zero closer to 200 / 100 / 25 yds. This particular one was made by Parker Hale. This is outside the range of the published official sight size options for the Lee Enfield (-0.030 to +0.090) so it is somewhat of a "unicorn". It would seem that the late WW2 production rifles necessitated deviations in the acceptable sized components for zeroing adequately. The strains of mass production had forced some unexpected variation and many rifles were potentially unserviceable /high / low zero unless something was done. I have heard of front sight mounts that are also built to a higher datum to allow for this variation - I have to research how one indentifies such a part from "normal" ones (markings etc). I think this sight blade produced by Parker Hale for probably for post war target shooting was another way to address the long term effects of this production deviation in rifle builds / rebuilds. Similarly I have several +0.120 front sight blades produced by Canadian Arsenals (the 1950's Longbranch), which also do not officially exist, they are very useful for gaining 100 yard zeros on the traditionally "high" battle rifles now used for hunting interests. Stay tuned!