Parker Hale PH5a or other SMLE target sight
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Topic: Parker Hale PH5a or other SMLE target sight
Posted By: Harzer
Subject: Parker Hale PH5a or other SMLE target sight
Date Posted: May 04 2023 at 5:56am
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Hi, does someone knows where I could get a PH5a target sight for a SMLE? Could also be another producer of SMLE target sights. Thanks for your help! Thomas ------------- BR Thomas |
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Posted By: Strangely Brown
Date Posted: May 04 2023 at 2:03pm
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Australia produced more than their fair share of SMLE sights: Central and Mues immediately spring to mind along with copies of the Central produced in England. I would also be inclined to look at some of the early produced folding sights, one of them designed and produced some 14 years after the P-H 5a was introduced! ------------- Mick |
Posted By: Sapper740
Date Posted: May 05 2023 at 5:54am
| Join an Australia or New Zealand based gunboard and check their 'for sale' ads. I currently have a spare PH5A but I'm hoping to trade it for a micrometer peep sight for a CLLE with another collector. |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: May 05 2023 at 12:49pm
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BSA/Parker-Hale/A.G. Parker or A.J. Parker are some others to search for. The folding ones Like the Parkers & BSA'a
neeed an adapter, make sure you get the right one for an SMLE, not the
more common one for the earlier marks & models without the SMLE type
safety. The Australian sights are nice, but even rarer than the P-H ones here in the U.S.  I'd try Googling the above names list & see what pops up! This guy is a good source for all of them, try him first. http://www.artiozen.com/post/central-sights-of-australia-for-the-no1-and-no4-lee-enfield" rel="nofollow - https://www.artiozen.com/post/central-sights-of-australia-for-the-no1-and-no4-lee-enfield If nothing else he's a mine of information on the niceties of getting the right items. Importing & exporting might be a problem though. I sold a PH5A to a member on here in France & they hammered him on import fees when it arrived but otherwise pretty straightforward. Australian "Central No4" & "universal mount plate"  P-H 5a with 6 hole aperture eyepiece disk.  BSA No9W (the best one for the SMLE) in a "close up SMLE mount plate" Open  folded shut  I hope this gives you some pointers or ideas. ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: Strangely Brown
Date Posted: May 05 2023 at 12:54pm
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Another site that everybody should know about! http://www.rifleman.org.uk/" rel="nofollow - http://www.rifleman.org.uk/ Checkout the sight pages. ------------- Mick |
Posted By: Enfield trader
Date Posted: May 05 2023 at 1:27pm
| I have one I’m going to sell but shipping overseas is expensive. I just sold some No4 sights to artiozen at the last show. |