Milsurp After Hours

Travelling over the weekend and while the wife was shopping decided to check out the local gunshop. Had been there about twice before.

Didn't have any of the reloading gear I was chasing or anything on my Christmas wish list so I ended up yarning for a couple of hours.

Wish I'd had my camera. We got on to the subject of military firearms and he was telling me one of the big Victorian dealers (bloody Mexicans) had just been through and the boss had sold his collection. The only thing not shipped were a Lewis gun replica and a Vickers replica - built out of wood and painted up. Went out the rear store and had a look. Not perfect but good.

While I was having a last casual glance at the scopes cabinet I spotted an old target sight. Thought I'd better get myself a christmas present in case the wife forgot.

Now I know it's a BSA but other than that I'm not real clued up.

Is it a 9A ? Whatever it is I'm sure the $US79/40GBP I paid was reasonable.

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It is an early pattern BSA type 9 sight. Its very confusing, because BSA produced about 10+? variations of the "9", but only about five different model names - "9", "9a", "9a (Push)", "9c", "9c(1912)", etc. Your sight has the side clamping screw that was advertised for their "9a(push)" model, but lacks that model's top clamping screw. Because your sight has the built-in volley sight arm, its probably one of the early model 9s where the volley arm was required for all target sights fitted to military (Volunteer) rifles.

Brewstop,

thanks for the information.

Now to fit it and do some load development for my MLE.

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