Alternate C96 Broomhandle Rear Sight

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by kurusu

Got a question. Is that rear sight lower than the original C96?

The dimensions are identical; the graduations are different. Depending on what distance you are shooting, POI will be different. Wildly so, in the upper ranges (if you go by the graduations).

The V-notch is in the same place as the C96. In theory it would hold the same POI. In practice it would likely be off a bit due to tolerances & allowances being different from sight to sight.

I offer it here as an alternative to broken or missing C96 sights that I have seen listed on eBay/GB for up to $200. The one from the pic in post # 5 above cost me $38 complete (band, spring, screw, leaf, elevator assy).

Edit: 20 Jan 2015

I am in the process of shortening one of the in-the-white FN/Chilean/Argentine Mauser rear sight leafs, and I can tell you that you ain't gonna mill these leafs with a HSS or even a Cobaly end mill...I have two broken ones to prove it...I ended up milling it with Carbide end mills...

The main body is still ordnance steel; HSS end mills work fine on that...