Barr & Stroud Ltd Rifle Sight

[Bent Ramrod]

Ran across this scope at a recent Gun Show. It is marked:

ALEXANDER MARTIN

BARR & STROUD LTD

RIFLE SIGHT

TYPE G.U.3. NO 146

The tightening screws on the mounts are marked "PARKER-HALE-MADE IN ENGLAND-" around the circumference. It looks to be of low power; maybe 2 or 2-1/2.

It has patches of rust on the outside, but much of the bluing is still there. I got the screws on the mounts loosened with Kroil and the set screws on the knurled rings towards the front of the scope loosened, but the rings themselves don't move. I'm afraid to gunk up the inside of the scope with penetrating oil. The crosshairs aren't quite centered. There look to be windage screws in the rear mount.

Does anybody know what this is? The seller said it was a "British Machine Gun Sight." I'd appreciate any info on what the knurled ring(s) are supposed to do. How is the elevation adjusted? The rear eyepiece also has knurling, but won't turn either; is this supposed to be the focus or parallax adjustment?

Stroebel's scope book and Shore's and Hesketh-Pritchard's English sniping books don't seem to mention or show anything like this scope sight.

Attachment 250392

[country gent]

On my MVA scopes the knurled rings are the parallax adjustment. As to elevation adjustments Im not sure maybe it was shimmed up to the zero.

[skeettx]

https://issuu.com/holtsauctioneers/d...9th_march_2005

Lot 379

Good luck

Mike

[Bent Ramrod]

Well, I guess there’s another one out there, anyway.

Barr and Stroud now seems to be an off-brand, owned by a holding company and stamped on Chinese import binoculars and spotting scopes. On-Line mention of the original company’s output seems limited to those WWII rangefinders that looked like sideways bazookas.