Anyone have this PH4 rear aperture piece and lenses?

[Enfield-Stuff]

I understand what you're trying to do. I have a pile of PH sights but have never found any of the inserts.

However, if your goal is simply to shoot using the PH sight, GEHMANN makes a whole pile of lenses with variable apertures for target shooting. You can buy them with PH threads, too! Most combinations are less than $200 USD.

Here is one example:

https://www.champchoice.com/mc-optic...olor-filte-570

I have a 530-PH that fits all of my vintage Parker-Hale sights, has magnification as well as adjustable iris:

https://www.champchoice.com/mc-optic...nification-530

If you really really want all the 48 color filters, you'll have to spend twice as much on the 546-MC

https://www.champchoice.com/mc-optic...th-polar-546mc

[Rick]

I understand what you're trying to do. I have a pile of PH sights but have never found any of the inserts.

Well, what I'm actually trying to do is try that custom ground lens in that PH eyepiece: total cost $45. But thank you for the links, some of them I've patronized before.

I am too old, too stiff, and too shaky these days to be a threat in any match. I just amuse myself here out in the sticks of Montana where I often have the range to myself, seeing how well I can do at distance with the No. 4 Long Branch. I do use the aperture adjustments in the flat eyepiece that I usually shoot with, and that definitely helps. But seeing as I have this one intended to accept lenses, we have a superb optician who specializes in competitive shooting whether with rifles, handguns, archery, etc, here just a bit south down in Missoula.

I have my annual visit with her and the optometrist who works with her coming up, and she's told me to bring my rifle and sights when I come.

For $45, I'll give it a whirl.

If I want all my excuses removed, I still have my Anschutz 1806 and its rear adjustable sight to humiliate myself with.

[Alan de Enfield]

Well, what I'm actually trying to do is try that custom ground lens in that PH eyepiece: total cost $45. But thank you for the links, some of them I've patronized before.

I am too old, too stiff, and too shaky these days to be a threat in any match. I just amuse myself here out in the sticks of Montana where I often have the range to myself, seeing how well I can do at distance with the No. 4 Long Branch. I do use the aperture adjustments in the flat eyepiece that I usually shoot with, and that definitely helps. But seeing as I have this one intended to accept lenses, we have a superb optician who specializes in competitive shooting whether with rifles, handguns, archery, etc, here just a bit south down in Missoula.

I have my annual visit with her and the optometrist who works with her coming up, and she's told me to bring my rifle and sights when I come.

For $45, I'll give it a whirl.

If I want all my excuses removed, I still have my Anschutz 1806 and its rear adjustable sight to humiliate myself with.

Rather than rely on someone accurately measuring a lens, why not just give the company you plan to use to make the lens, your prescription and the sight and let them make it to fit ?

[Rick]

Rather than rely on someone accurately measuring a lens, why not just give the company you plan to use to make the lens, your prescription and the sight and let them make it to fit ?

A couple of things. First, the optician and optometrist that work together with competitive shooters (and their sights) to provide the best correction possible prescribe glasses; the archery sights they work with have lenses with a diameter of an inch or more. On the other hand, the business at the link above just wants to know what the dimensions of the lens have to be in order to fit and the prescription you specify be ground into the lens.

By messing around with assorted shims, verniers, etc I can probably get close. And alternately the company that grinds the lenses might be agreeable to having the eyepiece sent to them and them mucking about to figure out dimensions.

But easiest of all is if there's a collector out there with some of those filters who can just measure a sample and provide the measurements.