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    Advisory Panel Patrick Chadwick's Avatar
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    Both answers are IMHO correct. The P-H backsight has the desirable variable (switched) aperture. Oil it and rub it down very carefully with 0000 wire-wool and you have something worth 150-200 (value here in Mauserland). But a sporterized Enfield without backsight would mean looking for a backsight that would cost as much as the rifle is worth - seriously sub-100. So you have a good backsight with a low-value rifle attached.

    Anyway, over here (I don't know your market) the only use for a sporterized rifle is as hunting or plinking rifle with a scope or a red-dot sight fitted. Thee days, iron sights are only used by milsurp shooters, and they are not interested in sporters. Sporterized milsurps are worth very little indeed.

    Part it out.
    Last edited by Patrick Chadwick; 07-07-2017 at 09:01 AM.

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