To further facilitate rapid aimed fire the rifle can be cycled by most riflemen without loss of sight picture. I (T) Serial number 0C820 made by Stevens-Savage as a No.
The shorter length was controversial at the time many Rifle Association members and gunsmiths were concerned that the shorter barrel would not be as accurate as the longer MLE barrels, that the recoil would be much greater and the sighting radius would be too short. Fixed and adjustable aperture sights incorporated onto later variants. And Enfield produced some III* rifles in 1915.
