No. 4 "Singer" sights revisited

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Late X-mas present arrived via snail mail today. Took only one month to get to half way across the country as a first class package.

With the recent discussion on the Singer style rear sight this is the first 1942 dated milled sight I have come across. A bonus is that the battle sight is still intact. (Sorry for making you dig out your girls to look)

Anyways, obviously with the need for rifles in 1941 the complex singer sight was shelved for the "L" flip sight and later the stamped sights. Singer was the only one to produce these milled sights during WWII, most with 1941 dates or N67 marked leafs, with a bulk of them ear-marked to Enfield and H&H for the sniper project.

Many SM41's ended up modified for the sniper program and later, from observation, another run of sights in 1943 was done for the sniper program (SM43 as I have never seen one with the battle sight intact). Most likely in mid to late 1943 Singer started to use N67.

This 1942 dated example is "S.M.41" dated on the wheel and "SM42" on the leaf. Unfortunately there is not enough data to know if it is a early 1942 or a late 1942 (when they restarted the manufacture).

Pictured are SM41, SM42, SM43 and N67 milled sights (small hole battle sight aperture) and SM41, SM42 (low on back of 600 blade), SM42 (high on front of 600 blade) and N67 flip sight. Embarrassed I do not have a SM43 flip sight (another quest), sorry.

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