Service Rifle Enfield No.7

by Tony Cattermole

This is an original issued rifle with an aperture rear sight.

It’s a firm favourite, as the Enfield No.7, is this owners rifle of choice, it has proven itself accurate at 100 yards, and distances up to 400 yards using R50 ammunition.

The set up achieves this accuracy, through the benefit of this rifle’s original issued aperture rear sight, being calibrated for 25/50/100, but with enough spare elevation to achieve 200/300/400. The elevation scale lends itself to incising markings for these extended distances.

The 5 shot magazine is time consuming to reload, when time is of the essence in competitions. This has been overcome with a personal adaption of a single-shot ramp being used instead.

At these distances, the rear sight slide is quite elevated, and so to avoid sighting errors by looking through the gap below the slide, a high tech home modification is used, consisting of “blu tack” and a small black card to cover this space.