Thread: M1/M14 sights

Well typically the pack rat in me won out and I got this sight assembly thinking I might be able to cobble it up into a nice little peep assembly.
Pretty cheap I might add
Yeah nah lol
Once I had it in my hot little hands I did some giggling.
Seems it's a T105E1 post war sight for a garand.
Which is good, but bad as it need the ears on the receiver to work. So unless someone has a buggered one to cut up it is a bit of a mission to make it happen.
Otherwise it's only good for collectors here in NZ seeing any normal ones would've been squashed in the confiscation.
Thoughts/advice everyone?

I saw that on TM and did wonder why someone would pay so much myself. Yeah, that's a very bespoke sight base you require. Unless someone has a garand needing a sight then it's basically scrap metal. Far better of starting with a skinner sight for whatever you intend to mount it on.

I didn't think I paid that much for it. Pretty happy at at the time
My ignorance really.
Saw what I thought was a removable aperture sight I could cross purpose to something else.
Not realizing it needs the other parts integral to the action lol

It is a collector’s piece.
Whatever you do with it, try not to do anything permanent to it, just incase you need to move it on.

Originally Posted by wcm

It is a collector’s piece.
Whatever you do with it, try not to do anything permanent to it, just incase you need to move it on.

@wcm no that wasn't what I had in mind.
Worst case maybe have crack on ebay

If it were me, I would knock up a concept of what I wanted using some aluminium channel.
Or if you know how to use a Computer Aided Drawing (CAD) program, I’d try to design something in that.

But you are right. Without the sight base, there isn’t much you can do.

I haven’t looked, but I wonder if there is some steel channel or hollow section that is near enough, which you could then cut and file to suit.

The flaw with my suggestion is that the sight drums wouldn’t ‘lock’ into any position, as it would with the serrations on the sight base.

Yup that was my thoughts.
As I have nothing to copy it makes it tough.
The serrations would be a PITA