British Military Intelligence....

[Brithunter]

Hi There,

What you are forgetting is that by 1916 Britian had been at war for two years and dropping these things was not about anything more than cutting costs and speed of production. Later the mag cut off was re-introuduced but the adjustable sights were found not to be needed with proper set up and then proper training of the troops. Unit armourers were equipped with fore sight adjusters which had minutes of angles marked on them.

You are also forgetting that Britian adopted the aperture sight on the P-14 and actually designed on on the P-13. Even Canada had anbattle aperture sight on the Ross rifle in WW1. The US got their first taste of a battle aperture sight with the Model 1917 and it was quite some time after this that the Springfield got an aperture sight. The US was way behind on development and playing catch up in this and a lot of Military hard ware right up into WW2.