Aiming with Battle Sights?

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I'm hoping someone can offer some pointers on how to aim with battle sights.

I have used iron sights before, the ones having a blade with a notch at the rear and a post at the front. However, my Jungle carbine has the post with wings up front but the rear sight is simply an aperture (i.e. a circular hole). There is nothing with which to align the front sight.

Do you get the wings of the front sight touching the edge of the aperture in the rear sight and place the top of the post just below the desired Point of Impact?

Thanks for any advice / pointers.
 
Simple: that setup is auto-centering.
Yes, The human eye automatically finds the center od an aperture. The only required action is to put the blade at six o'clock on the target and squeeze the shot.
BTW, don't forget to focus on the blade, not on the target.
PP.
 
Look through the rear sight and center the front post on the faint ring of the rear sight.

Go to milsurps.com and download "Shoot To Live". It explains with pictures.

Here it is http://www.milsurps.com/content.php?r=310-Shoot-to-Live-1945-%28Practical-Shooting-with-the-Enfield-Rifle-%29
 
Do you get the wings of the front sight touching the edge of the aperture in the rear sight and place the top of the post just below the desired Point of Impact?

The front sight guards have nothing to do with the aiming. They simply protect the sight blade. When sighting through the rear aperture, the centre will be the clearest part of the picture. Now centre the top of the foesight in themiddle of that picture. Youget used to it.
 
infideleggwelder said:
flip up the rear sight and use the smaller aperture. the battle sight i think is only there to snap shoot a man size target 50 - 70 yds away max. just my 5 cents. i`m out of pennies
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Battle sight is set for 400 yds. ;) Simple set of instructions tell you where to aim up to that distance. Beauty of aperture sights is you don't have to worry about the rear sight, eye automatically centers on that.

Grizz
 
Jay Currah's Markmanship Informationhttp://www.milsurps.com/enfield.php?pg=mi.htm

Jay Currah's Sighting Instructions For The Enfield Riflehttp://www.milsurps.com/enfield.php?pg=ti15.htm

Jay Currah's Calculating Correct Front Sight Height for Zerohttp://www.milsurps.com/enfield.php?pg=ti12.htm

Enfield Sight Basicshttp://www.milsurps.com/enfield.php?pg=ti14.htm

Presenting the Johnson Method of Musketry Coaching As Adopted By the Canadian Army, Ottawa, Chief of the General Staff.

"Shoot-to-Live" - 1945 (click here)

This is an excellent Canadian Government issued training manual. If you are specifically a collector and shooter of Lee Enfield rifles, you'll find this to be an outstanding reference work and it contains a wealth of information on how to properly shoot the No.4 Mk1 Enfield, although much of the content is applicable to any bolt action rifle. I remember being issued this manual as part of our regimental rifle team, when I was a little younger back in the early 60's. ;)

Hope this helps... :)

Regards,
Doug
 
Ignore the sight protectors altogether. They're only purpose is to keep the PBI from damaging the front sight. Look through the rear sight, never at it, and focus on the front sight only. Sit the black of the target, assuming that's what you're shooting at, on top of the front sight blade.
 
@ Sunray:

We were trained on the Number 4 before the conversion to the C-1.

Your post is the words of our Instructor...... exactly.

And it works, too.

BTW, guys, SHOOT TO LIVE! is a wonderful book. At one time it WAS the standard rifle-coaching textbook for the Number 4 and it remains the BEST single book on Rifle management ever written.

Canadian, eh?
 
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