replacement -UPGRADED sights for Smith Carbine

[rkel870]

Besides the usual suttlers does anyone make/sell an upgraded Smith Carbine rear sight? I am not happy with the quality of the rear sight provided as original on the Pedersoli Smith. I know at least one Sharps replacement which is awesome and am looking for the same quality.

[Lou Lou Lou]

Your Smith is probably a Pietta not a Pedersoli. What exactly is the issue you want to correct? You can get replacement slides or blank slides to improve the sight picture.

[Smokepole50]

I have a few to sell if your interested. They are set up to fit a Pietta sight ladder. Send me a PM if your interested.

[RaiderANV]

Randle......post a pix of yer handy work so we can all see??

[Smokepole50]

pictures...............cant upload?????

[Eggman]

Crop crop crop. You have to crop the pictures to get within the file size limit.

[Smokepole50]

What is the file size limit???

[Smokepole50]

Pictures,..........

[Smokepole50]

This was the first sight I made. The new version pictured in the batch photo is a bit thicker and uses a 4-40 machine screw. The sight is made of steel and is rust blued.

[P.Altland]

For my own knowledge, when did it become legal to add a set screw to a ladder sight of a Smith and isn't the altered sight supposed to remain dimensionally consistent with the original?

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[John Robey]

Mr. Altland is correct. These items would all cause disqualification in any N-SSA carbine individual or company match. All allowable sight modifications are listed in Section 19.9.1 of The Skirmish Rules​.

[RaiderANV]

....... and isn't the altered sight supposed to remain dimensionally consistent with the original?

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Good question. Most every Smith replacement rear sight I've seen or bought on sutler row is bigger.

[Smokepole50]

Well then.....it seem the design will need to be refined before it can be used for more than load development. Thanks for letting me know.

[P.Altland]

Good question. Most every Smith replacement rear sight I've seen or bought on sutler row is bigger.By dimensionally consistent, I was more referring to the sight being a flat piece of steel and not resembling a Smith L-shaped elevator. That sight would not be functional with the ladder in the lowered position.

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[LeoSkully]

This was the first sight I made. The new version pictured in the batch photo is a bit thicker and uses a 4-40 machine screw. The sight is made of steel and is rust blued.

It looks good, man.

[Bruce Cobb 1723V]

I just don't get why some skirmishers just don't read our rules. Many, many questions asked here are answered just by looking them up. Who's to blame when a sight or anything is sold as acceptable and they are on the line and get disqualified? Sorry, just talking out loud......... I am NOT pointing fingers at anybody in particular here.

[Eggman]

Yes it certainly is frustrating. I make a point to read somebody's rules every day. But of course as Wellington said, "Nobody in the British Army ever reads a regulation or an order as if it were a guide to his conduct, or in any other manner than an amusing novel."

[cigarunner1]

Pictures,.......... do you have smith sight pieces avaiable?
Bob Matthias. Cigarunner@hotmail.com Norfolk Light Inf. 0131