Mystery Miltary Target Sight

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This curious- Target Sight came up on social media. I am curious about what it is, and what it fits. It looks like a .22 Enfield sight, but I cannot find anything similar. Ideas?

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They also work well for a short range target sight for a No. 4 .303 rifle.
About a half century ago, I bought one from Blake Stevens at a gun show and he fitted it up to a No. 4 for me on the spot.
I should have never parted with that one.
 
bearhunter said:
It's from a C7 22LR rifle, which is built using the same receiver as the No4 but stamped as a 22 Long Rifle.
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That explains why I couldn’t find it referenced on the Rifleman.co.uk website. It’s Canadian! I like the design. Very compact.

OkayShooter said:
Lol did you post on Dull men's club?
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No, but that is exactly where I saw it. I didn’t see any useful answers beyond the blatantly obvious, but I also couldn’t figure out what exactly it is.

Does this sight have any sort of name? Or is it just the sight they used on the C-No. 7 rifles?
 
I have ( ALL original) a Lee Enfield stamped on receaver ,,,, " C No 7, ,22 In. , MK. 1 Long Branch 1946".
Your sight is the same as what is on my Rifle.
 
cooey43 said:
I have ( ALL original) a Lee Enfield stamped on receaver ,,,, " C No 7, ,22 In. , MK. 1 Long Branch 1946".
Your sight is the same as what is on my Rifle.
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Is a thing I have noticed about old guns - my interest mostly is WWI P14 and the Model of 1917 rifles - because you have something in your hand, does not make it "proof" of what it used to be - need a document or something that says what it "should have been" - was too many of them that had a different sight, or a "wrong" part installed 40 years ago - does not mean that "wrong" thing then, is now a "correct" thing - is for sure "old" according to some people - but it is the documents (so far as I know) that will tell you what it was supposed to have on it, how it was marked, way back then. When I get a P14 rifle that is installed into a M1917 stock, or an M1917 rifle with a P14 floor plate - needs a "story" - there probably were a few "legit" fittings done like that by militaries - I think a lot more of those swaps were done long after those rifles left any military. It is the difference between "does it work" versus "is it correct" - some people do not care.
 
If you looked on rifleman.org you were looking in the wrong place.

The sight in the original post, which is the correct sight, as fitted by S.A.L. [Long Branch], is shown on the rifle there:

https://rifleman.org.uk/Enfield_Rifle_No.7-C.html

And, if you have Skennerton's book, the sight is shown therein, as well as on this web-page, which is a reproduction of the rifle's manual :

https://rifleman.org.uk/Enfield_Rifle_No.7-C_manuals_parts.html

The sight's NSN is 1005-21-103-1404 Leaf Sight Assembly, Rear, Folding
 
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