Nice Surprise in the mail

**Eddie Parks** · 07-19-2017 10:55 AM

Have had a nasty surprise in the mail recently it was very nice to get a really nice one.

Along with a long sought PH8/53 rear sight for my LE No4 I found a John Wilkes Precision foresight tube for the No 4 and a lot of elements.

You can see the tube has a sloped mount to fit the No4/9.

Some of the elements are a bit odd to my eye. The top right one is made from very flimsy plastic and probably home made? And what were those square ones used for??

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**CINDERS** · 07-19-2017 11:00 AM

As a guess to frame the target frame itself, when I was shooting full bore I used round elements that had the target frame (white part) touching the very inner edge of the sight elements black ring on all 4 corners it was far easier to centralize the target that way with the corners kissing the inner edge than trying to have equal amounts of white around a black bulls eye if using a smaller element.