Recently I went to my sons old school Cadet Force to sift through the old cupboards. In an old box, left over from their SMLE and No4 shooting days were a couple of assorted Parker Hale 5 C sights. One was a little strange because the inside of the base part was stepped and built up. I know that I have mentioned this feature on some of the sights before.

During the mid 60’s when I was attached to an Infantry regiment with a good shooting team, they regularly used the accurate No4T rifles for SRb competitions. The problem was that the usual Parker Hale sights could not be fitted due to the protruding rear sight bracket base. So they had ‘adapted’ P-H sights to accommodate this. This way, they could use their own, same rifle for several different competitions I knew that I wasn’t imagining things because there, before my very eyes, in the old box was just such a sight! A couple of the others are currently on that auction site

Pictured is the odd No4T sight plus for comparison a standard PH5c base alongside. I just KNOW that a forumer somewhere will know the answer to this

Does anyone collect these PH sights? Can they identify it as a home-made or does it feature in a catalogue? It certainly doesn’t look home made by any stretch of the imagination and looking carefully, it doesn’t even look fabricated although it COULD be of course. Would P-H make or adapt these sights for customers? And at what cost?

P-H5c base fitted to a No4T slave action
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The built up and standard sight bases from an underside angle
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The rear side of the two bases. The built-up base has also been relieved extensively to clear the rear pad and this shows as the relief has broken into the lead screw hole.
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The build up and relief again.
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Just another question too. Each of the sights there has what appears to be a two or three figure 'serial number' stamped into the rear of the main body and arm. Is this a serial number or simply a machining/mating number

Thanks for any answers ......
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