{"title":"Jeff John","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"britains-l42a1-king-of-the-enfield-sniper-rifles-paperback","title":"Britain's L42A1: King of the Enfield Sniper Rifles - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eBritain's L42A1 was the last and best of the Enfield sniper rifles. These legendarily reliable and accurate rifles were built on arguably the best of all the WW II sniper rifles fielded in the No. 4 Mk I (T) .303 and converted to 7.62x51mm NATO by the Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield. The L42A1 served from the early 1970s to the mid 1980s before being retired, but because of its reliability in dirty, dusty conditions, it was brought out of retirement several times and served alongside more modern rifles all the way into Afghanistan in the early 2000s before being finally retired again.\u003cbr\u003eBecause the story of L42A1 is intertwined with target shooting and the British Army's switch to a self-loading rifle, the story of the L39A1 target rifle that led directly to the L42A1 and the L1A1 (an inch pattern version of the Belgian designed FN\/FAL) are covered in detail along with much of the equipment fielded in this Cold War era.\u003cbr\u003eWhile the corps of successful scout\/snipers of WW II and Korea had been disbanded by the Army in the late 1950s, the Royal Marines kept their concepts alive using the old .303 sniper alongside their modern 7.62 Self Loading Rifles.\u003cbr\u003eMilitary Match Shooting was very popular in England in the post-WW II era. In the early 1960s as stocks of .303 ammo began running out, the target shooters looked to convert their .303s to 7.62, but RSAF Enfield faced considerable troubles converting the No. 4 from .303 to 7.62, and finally succeeded with the L39A1. When the Army finally remembered the value of a capable man delivering a precise single shot was still a necessary part of a modern military, it needed a sniper rifle in a hurry. Enfield began converting the old WW II sniper rifles using the techniques pioneered with the L39A1. Voilà! The L42A1 was born.\u003cbr\u003eThe rifle in this book last served with the 7th Gurkha Rifles in the Falklands Island War in 1982 and that conflict serves as the background for the detailed review. If you ever wondered what interplanetary war might be like, a study of the Falklands conflict is a good place to start! The last part of the book contains much information on the difficulties encountered in the Falklands War illustrated by period photos from the Imperial War Museum in the UK. 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Elite marksmen used the No. 4 Mk I (T) sniper with skill and cunning and quickly dominated the battlefield. \"The Matchless Enfield\" tells the story of the No. 4 sniper rifle and how it was developed and used. The No. 4 (T)'s on range performance is evaluated by shooting an original. Included is an evaluation of the specialized gear including the unique 20X telescope, binocular, transit chest and other gear the sniper teams used on their stalks into the enemy's lines. Fully illustrated with more than 140 new color and period black \u0026amp; white photos. Includes handloading tips, factory ammo performance, a resource guide and bibliography. 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Army's fast-firing M1 Garand-to a high-capacity, select-fire machine rifle capable of firing 900 rounds per minute while weighing the same as either the M1 or K98k. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe FG42's amazingly brief development includes some prescient aspects of optics capability and its use of a discarded aircraft sight at first. One major influence in the FG42 design was that of the American Johnson Light Machine Gun (a pre-war inspiration), with the heart of America'a LMG Lewis Gun as the operating system! \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eToo few FG42s were made too late in the war to have much impact. And the battlefield superiority the FG42 offered was lost on post-war arms designers worldwide who ignored its valuable lessons. With existing originals selling in the six-figure range, two well-made semi-auto reproductions give an idea of how well this rifle could have been had it not been hampered by wartime pressure on raw materials causing redesigns, substitutions and quality control issues.\u003cbr\u003eThis work on the FG42 is written for arms enthusiasts, reenactors and students of the Second World War. Included is a thorough evaluation with an in-depth shooting review of the SMG Guns Type I and Type II semi-auto replicas of these remarkable rifles. Test and evaluation data includes factory ammo and handloaded ammo, a complete, fully illustrated disassembly\/reassembly guide of both rifles, as well as more than 100 full color photos of the SMG replica illustrated with a wide variety of reproduction and original accoutrements that make this rifle at home in any WWII collection. Also included are B\u0026amp;W period photos of the arm in combat use from Germany's Bundesarchiv. 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