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Here's an image from the "glorious" 1931 Soviet flick, Sniper. You can see that the rifle is an P14 (or M1917) Enfield but look at the scope. It appears that only the occular lens is present and then part of the scope body which ends aburptly. Note the band around the stock too that appears to be like a steel clamp (ala hose clamp approach) to hold the scope onto the stock. If you study the image carefully, it looks like the scope tube ends just around where that band is. Half a scope or someone's broken binocular being used as a faux rifle scope? Or could that round part be a dial for ranges/distances. A lot of British and German scopes had that feature. Thoughts?
Remember, 1931 was before the Soviets acquired the technology to make their own rifle scopes. They were still experimenting back then and came up with a crappy prismatic scope that didn't work. They then asked the Germans to develop a scope which included both elevation and windage ajustments. This became the basis for the PE (and later PEM) scope used during WW II.
Remember, 1931 was before the Soviets acquired the technology to make their own rifle scopes. They were still experimenting back then and came up with a crappy prismatic scope that didn't work. They then asked the Germans to develop a scope which included both elevation and windage ajustments. This became the basis for the PE (and later PEM) scope used during WW II.