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9 July 2019 at 18:56 #418069
Martin King 2
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Hi All,

Bought a big box of engineering tooling at Sunday's car boot and was about to chuck out the rusty rubbish at the bottom when I saw these two items stuck together in a large glob of black grease covered paper.

One appears to be quite old by the patent date:

The other is by Parker Hale Model:PH16 and is well marked:

What sort of weapons would these be for? Air guns or something more potent perhaps? After some careful cleaning up they both work very well on the fine adjustments.

Cheers, Martin
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9 July 2019 at 18:56 #34410
Martin King 2
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9 July 2019 at 19:07 #418072
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9 July 2019 at 19:19 #418073
Grindstone Cowboy
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Parker Hale made target sights for many different rifles, the PH16 was available in a number of different models, as listed:

PH16 BSA Sportsman and similar
PH16B ditto, 1/10" higher line of sight
PH16C military Mauser
PH16D Mossberg 42MB
PH16E .22 Mauser with grooves in receiver
PH16F SMLE
PH16J rifles w/flat-side receivers 1.25" wide
PH16K ditto, 1" wide
PH16M Webley & Scott Mk.3 air rifle
PH16N Brno rifles , .22RF & .22 Hornet

The other sight would, at a guess, be for something around .22RF calibre as well.
9 July 2019 at 20:03 #418082
old mart
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Those dates are nineteenth century. The newest gun mentioned would likely be the Webley Mk 3.
9 July 2019 at 20:59 #418089
Mick B1
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The PH16's not as substantial as the fullbore target sights I was used to, and doesn't appear to have the range of adjustment to cope with the full spread of distances and possible windages, but could certainly work well over a limited segment.

Seems to cover pretty much the full range of calibres from the better sub-12 ft.lb. airguns to 2000+ ft.lb. military fullbores. Not the sort of thing you'd want for the heavy-game express rifles, though .
10 July 2019 at 11:56 #418164
Ian S C
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I had a Parker Hale sporting convertion of a SMLE Lee Enfield .303, I actually wanted a #4* that I had used in the RNZAF, in the 1960 that was our standard weapon, were as the army had gone semi auto 7.62 mm.

The PH 16 sight is for a BSA Sportsman .22 LR

Ian S C

Edited By Ian S C on 10/07/2019 12:29:28
10 July 2019 at 17:37 #418198
Neil Wyatt
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Posted by Martin King 2 on 09/07/2019 18:56:44:

Hi All,

Bought a big box of engineering tooling at Sunday's car boot and was about to chuck out the rusty rubbish at the bottom when I saw these two items stuck together in a large glob of black grease covered paper.

One appears to be quite old by the patent date:

Good job you had the foresight to check

(ROFLing at my own wit).

Neil
10 July 2019 at 20:29 #418234
Mick B1
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Posted by Neil Wyatt on 10/07/2019 17:37:31:

Good job you had the foresight to check

(ROFLing at my own wit).

Neil

Hmmm… rearsight; or maybe – considering their age – hindsight?
10 July 2019 at 22:34 #418242
Martin King 2
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Fortunately not an oversight…….

Martin
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