Mack...

Thank you for the clarification.

Quote Originally Posted by mack View Post
As to sights, no M1D would ever have left an ordnance shop with lockbars, since these rifles are postwar FOR THE MOST PART. It certainly would have gone in for work at some point in the last 65 years and the lockbars, if they were on there originally, which I doubt, would have been instantly replaced and those beloved lockbars would have hit the junk parts box in a heartbeat. They were outmoded and made sight adjustment clumsy compared to the 105's.
Your point is well taken, but I was simply suggesting that original sights -- on an "all original" rifle produced in 1944-1945 -- would hardly be the post-war sights, T105E1(?) would they?

Ben Hartley