APERTURE RIFLE SIGHTS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 639, 16 October 1909, Page 6

APERTURE RIFLE SIGHTS.

The above is a reproduction of. ; thei B.S.A, aperture riflei sight; concerning which so. much "has been heard of late.. Tfie present state of perfection has not; been' reached in a single Enfield began ' by designing a Wind gauge slide.' The National Rifle Association a' year or so later allowed.'various alternative forms of slide. Last year all kinds of arrange-, ments were authorised, 'provided they could be fixed in. an interchangeable' manner with tho ordinary, sight-leaf. 'The aperture sight was allowed as an alternative-to tho.ordinary. "V," but it was apparent thnt jt had; to bo brought further back to givo tho full advantage from its use. The authorisation of the fixing of. the back,sight" to .the.existing aperture bed was then! resolved .upon/', aha -such sights as the "B.S.A. aporfuro "are tho outcome. It is a fairly safe thing to .prophesy (saye London "FioldT that wherovor.this kind of sight is• allowed, the others .will go,by tho board j perhaps' not 1 at' 1 once, but certainly with: a rapidity that iviirjtetonish'.'those who have hold that tho ordinary back sight in'tho middle of tho barrel did nil that was required; The' need for orthoptics .disappears by tho transference to tho rifle of the peep-holo. .The, marksman looks through tho .littlo ipcrttiro and' sees nothing; but the foro sight' and tho tnrgot. Ho lays;the ono ovor tho other,.and, if'the adjustment ,is correctly, made,'.'all goes well when the trigger is; pulled.' If .the wind changes, or the position- of the shots,indicates that .the'jiight adjustment "is; not quito GB.rf.ecti; the -vertical or lateral; adjustment' of--10 screx provides the n<rassaiy.:dohiecrioiv ;