Good Evening. Trying to understand the various apertures on the rear sight. I am a Mauser guy and need guidance on what apertures are for what range/purposes. Waited 25 years to get a Ross and love it. Thanks, Randy.
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Good Evening. Trying to understand the various apertures on the rear sight. I am a Mauser guy and need guidance on what apertures are for what range/purposes. Waited 25 years to get a Ross and love it. Thanks, Randy.
Greetings Randy. This is from The Ross Rifle Story, page 268.
" The Ross "Battle Aperture" Sight
This is the rearsight used on the Ross Mk III rifle and retrofitted on many Mk II** rifles. The initial design is that of A.J.Parker and patented in 1910. Modifications were suggested by the SSAC to Parke'rs sight. Ross incorporated these plus his own ideas into the "Battle Aperture " Sight which was patented in 1914. This sight was also known as the Sight, Ross, Elevating Screw (with aperture).
Sight, Ross, Elevating Screw (with aperture) was hinged to the charger guide base secured to the rear of the receiver. The sight components were the frame, windgauge (deflection) plate, elevating screw and hinge pin. The right side of the frame was marked as a vernier scale each line representing two minutes of elevation, the ranges being marked off from 0 to 1,200 yards (1500 yards for the SHORT ROSS MARK III .280 rifle). The windage plate, working in an undercut groove and graduated for deflection, was operated by the windgauge screw. Each division on the deflection plate represented five minutes of deflection. The bottom of the slide was similarly graduated. The elevating screw, with milled collar at the top, passed through a hole in the top left side of the sight frame, then through a screw recess in the slide, finally forming a bearing in the bottom of the frame. The battle sight was a notched bar raised at the top of the windgauge plate, defined for use in both the flat and upright positions. An aperture was drilled in the windgauge plate just above the deflection scale. Also used on Mk II** match rifles."
I don't use the official military load for my rifle, so the distance readings are off somewhat for me but the sight graduations seem correct for as well as I can shoot. Regards. Tom
Thanks Tom. I will use the peep sight just above the windage gear along with the graduations that look like zero to way to far for my old eyes. Thanks, Randy.