Enfield No. 5 Mk.I 1945 with stamped rear sight?

[Peter Laidler]

Note that the left hand backsight has the full length No4 type screw, adjusting. I bet that was one of ours. We didn't differentiate at all. The backsight screw was the backsight screw to us and 400 still read 400 regardless!

[Roger Payne]

Peter, can you confirm that the part way threaded screws for the No5 are actually a different thread to the ones threaded the whole way for the No4. I have a bucket full of dismantled No4 rear sight leaves in my garage, together with a generous quantity of thumb screws, cursors, springs etc. It looks to me as though the thumb screws are interchangeable, but only if you change the little threaded locating nut as well. Or at least, this is how it seemed to me when I was assembling a few sights.....

In fact, if you look carefully at 5th Battn's two rifles with the machined rear sights, you can see that the one on the R of the photo (No5 type) has a larger diameter screw than that on the rifle shown to the L (No4 type).

[Peter Laidler]

The standard and shortie were different threads as were the matched nuts. Quite why is a total mystery to me! After all, the slide was interchangeable and as I said, a reading of, say, 400 was the same on either slide, regardless if it was screwed there by a short thread or a long thread!

Looking through a load of old photos today and found a picture of Armourers inspecting the last No4 and 5 rifles prior to being withdrawn in Malaya in 1968. It says '....... from arse enders - Signals and Transport! Sorry if you were Signals (the bleeps) or Transport (cabbies). I'll see if Badger can't put it up

[5thBatt]

Just tried out both sights, the one on the left takes 32 clicks to go from 200 to 800 the one on the right 55 clicks.

[Peter Laidler]

We had the mathematiucs of it on another thread I seem to remember. But 400 yards is STILL 400 yards through either sight leaf.

[5thBatt]

The No5 it's on is a early rifle a 4/44 Faz s/n 524 no prefix, would the screw be original or more likely changed out, i'm already picking the latter.

[LithgowMKIII]

Nice gun Promo. Any plans for it?

[Promo]

Yes. Sell it to someone interested. The same as with the three No. 4 rifles I currently have . But of course preferrably within Europe.

[LithgowMKIII]

Yes. Sell it to someone interested. The same as with the three No. 4 rifles I currently have . But of course preferrably within Europe.

Ah, Hopefully you find a good price and someone worthy to have it.

I tell my wife, these are good investments; her response is that I've never sold any of them!

[Promo]

Hey, you're saving for the retirement! Or better not, otherwise you then really have to sell them when you're retired! Well, I should then consider it an advantage that I'm not married yet? But she goes with me to gun shows aswell, however the problem is that the only rifle she likes is rare like a unicorn, and has the price of a hoard of unicorns..

But to get back to the rifle: it should be somewhere in the range of € 550, which would translate as $626 or 400 British Pounds. For that I can part with it. And as long as it's with me, I'm also fine. There are worse things to have.