enfield rear sight insert?

[ralphy]

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.

[Badger]

You can also use the AJ Parker 8/53 that bolts onto the standard Mk1 sight.

Here's what claven2 is referring to....

It's a "fully adjustable" slip on target sight for the standard Mk1 military sight.

Click PIC to Enlarge

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

[David K]

....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.

[ralphy]

Here are the pics williame

[David K]

.... 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. ......

[williame]

Here's what claven2 is referring to....

It's a "fully adjustable" slip on target sight for the standard Mk1 military sight.

Click PIC to Enlarge

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

thats what i need! now if i can just find one.
id pay $150 for one

[williame]

how about this thing?

[williame]

unfortunately i would have to enlarge certain holes on my rifle and that i will not do!

[David K]

..... 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. .....

[klaws]

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.