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See also the: WILKINSON SUB-TARGET MACHINE ...~...MAUSER SUB-TARGET DEVICE ..~: HOLLIFIELD "DOTTER" .~.. CUMMINGS "DOT" RIFLE ~... PRACTICE RODS
The Wilkinson company, in addition to the licensed sub-target machine, also manufactured their own device which clamped to the nose-cap of an S.M.L.E. rifle.
Little is known of this piece of equipment. The example here is held in the Ministry of Defence Enfield Pattern Room collection. ( images by their courtesy). It operates on a principle similar to that of the sub-target unit for the 1896 Swedish Mauser rifle.
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Above: the target - approx. actual size...................
Any further information on this device would be most gratefully received; please email the editor
See also the: WILKINSON SUB-TARGET MACHINE ...~...MAUSER SUB-TARGET DEVICE ..~: HOLLIFIELD "DOTTER" .~.. CUMMINGS "DOT" RIFLE ~... PRACTICE RODS
the British "Swift Training Rifle "and the Canadian "Long Branch Training Rifle" of 1943 vintage.
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