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i am wondering if anybody has tried to make the rear sight hole smaller on the distance adjustable flip up sight? some sort of insert maybe? something from a hardware store? im thinking like some sort of small brass something. i would like to make it almost like a target sight.
thanks!
Drill and tap it to the size of a PH adjustable iris or get another sight to prevent buggering up a good rifle sight and do the same thing..... However, you will still have to move the front sight for windage. Why not bite the bullet and buy a PH or AJP rear sight ???? Then you have both windage and elevation and have not buggered up a good rear sight.
oh i dont want to do anything permanent! i just was thinking of some sort of collared brass fitting that was tiny enough to insert in the existing hole. i could probably get away with putting tape over it and poking a hole but i want something neat. i realize i will have to adjust the windage. but thats easy.
thanks again! bill
this is just an early morning thought
PH or AJP rear sight . what are they? do you have a link? thanks
are they a type of sight that would be correct? i will not drill/tap or do anything that i cant reverse. thank you for your time!
bill
They're not correct for an issued military service rifle, they're target sights. With the correct model of target sight, no drilling/tapping will be required.Quote:
Originally Posted by williame
price may vary but your looking at a minimum if your lucky $150 for an AJ Parker / Parker Hale target site.
used an arpeture from a no 7 with a 10-32 nut, fits like a charm in most CMK3 sights
You can also use the AJ Parker 8/53 that bolts onto the standard Mk1 sight.
please excuse my ignorance but ,i have no idea what any of that is or where to find the parts you refer to.Quote:
Originally Posted by ralphy
i would assume a no.7 is some sort of sight?
as is a CMK3?
Hi Willame
The no 7 is a version of a no4 mk1 .303 that was made for .22 and the cmk3 is the 3thrid version of the no4 mk1 .303 sight sorry no pictures yet, I got the parts years ago and works very good any thing to lower the diamiter of the sight should lower the grouping size.
Here's what claven2 is referring to....Quote:
Originally Posted by Claven2
It's a "fully adjustable" slip on target sight for the standard Mk1 military sight.
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Look in the England - Milsurp Knowledge Library (click here) for the 8/53 listed under A.J. Parker & Parker Hale Sights (click here)
It's covered in detail under pics 59-65 when you go to the main storage area.
~Angel~ bought hers from England since they actually still sell them, although I have seen them come up on eBay from time to time as well.
Regards,
Badger
....You could try a piece of thin plastic tubing, or even the the refill from a "ball point pen" ..... the little sets of beads/macramé have different sizes of tube type beads. At the risk of confessing to heresy, I had an old diopter (sight disk) with destroyed threads, and an old No4 rear sight, with filing and epoxy cement, combined the two. Not pretty, even with instant blue, but the combination does work. A proper "target sight" would be infinitely better ! ...David K.
Here are the pics williame
.... What I did with my "modification" was to enlarge the hole in the ladder/adjustable sight, file down the diopter stem and shorten it. Filed the face side of the diopter down flat, then "glued" the whole thing together. This way, the open "battlefield" (large) sight is still usable and I have an adjustable for aperture, finer sight. Not pretty, but cold blue helps, and if the parts were attached with brazing or similar, a hot blue job, and it'd look OK ! Windage adjustments, are of course, via the fore-sight. (Which fell off the other day ! .... with a 1941, No.4, mine at least, is held in by friction, no set screw ! ) ....... David K. ......
thats what i need! now if i can just find one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Badger
id pay $150 for one:thup:
how about this thing?https://www.milsurps.com/images/imported/deleted.gif
unfortunately i would have to enlarge certain holes on my rifle and that i will not do!
..... That's essentially what I did, with the exception that my disk was thinner to start with. Filed it down enough that the large original sight can still be used, sort of . If I were doing it over again, instead of the really buggered base, I'd use one that was a little better, and rather than filing down the whole disk/aperture, I'd try to simply file a "grove/trough" along the sight line to allow use of the "big hole" ..... David K. .....:)
Here is what I do. I take a small cheap aluminum cleaning rod and drill a small hole in it. I then turn just a little of it down so it will slip in the back sight hole, but I leave a small rim on one side so it has something to stop it from going all the way through, file it flush on the front side of the sight,then glue it in and paint it black. A lath makes it easy to do and takes about 10 min to build. I made my first one's with just a electric drill. I got the little drill bit's at a welding shop. They are used for cleaning the torch tip's.
You could fill in the battle sight with solder and then drill a small hole. The hole could be a bit lower than centre, so as to make it better for 100 yards.
Here is another way to make an adjustable rear sight. Get a bolt big enough to self tap into the battle sight hole. You may want to drill the battle sight out a bit. Rather than butcher a good rear sight, get one of those L shaped 2 hole affairs, and drill out the larger of the 2 holes.
Using some lube and a wrench, work the bolt into the big sight hole, self tapping it.
Chuck the bolt in an electric drill and then round off the bolt head with a coarse file. Smooth finish with fine file or sandpaper.
Cut off most of the bolt shank with a hacksaw. Leave no more than a tenth of an inch of threaded shank. Just enough to screw a bit through the sight.
Drill a 1/8” hole through the bolt, to act as the new rear peep.
Drill the hole way off center. Counter sink the front of the hole, slightly.
Blue the bolt.
By rotating the bolt in the sight, you have about 5 to 10 minutes of adjustment in any direction.
After rifle is zeroed, LokTite bolt into position.