Hi There,
I might just do that when I am next down Mike way. Recently moved 200 miles from him to be at my parents as this place is geting too much for them to manage now.
As for hunting ............. well we have 6 species of Deer and Deer hunting all year, in the early part of this year up to the middle of May I shot 4 deer. Three Fallow and one Roe Doe and I used a diffrent rife each time, they were as follows :_
30-30 Medwell & Perritt bespoke Bolt action rifle with 6x42mm Schmidt & Bender scope in Apel mounts
7x57 BSA CF2 which hs a 4-10 Pecar in Apel roll off mounts
3-06 P-H Safari? ( still trying to positivly ID this model) with a 3-9x44 Tasco Titan 30mm tubed in Apel roll off mounts
303 BSA Model E sporting rifle (which is a rebuilt-converted P-14, circa 1949-1953) which is fitted with a Pecar 3-7x36 scope in P-H mounts.
My small collection is mainly based on sporting rifles, and the earliest is not complete. Has some part missing! it's a Snider sporting rifle in .577 snider which hopefully one day I will be able to complete. Next up is a M93 Mauser special sporting rifle built for the Boers in about 1897 then it's a Rigby best sporting rifle built upon a Mannlicher Mdl 1892 (dated 1893) action in 6.5x53R. One of the latest rifles I have is a P-H 1200V in 6mm Remington which I have yet to fire as I have no ammo for it and due to an oversight on the Police's part I do not have permnission to purchase expanding ammo in 6mm. Components in 6mm Rem are not that easy to find either so I wait.
Pistols are banned except for M/L ones although it seems that a special type of target .22RF pistol may be allowed as are special long barreled pistols for target shooting. The only semi auto rifles allowed are .22 RF but any normal manually operated rifles are allowed but you have to have permission for each and every one one you licence which is issued by the police. ammo is restiricted and you can only buy what is on your licence and that includes quantities.
So back to the 03's rear sight, Hmm the book I have here shows no peep on the 03's laddr sight and it looks like apart from the low folding down setting that you have to raise the ladder up like on the Mannlicher M95's. This is a poor design fro a battle rifle, ok for a target rifle I suppose. The No4's battle peep covers up to 300 yards.
Yes I was quoting an urban myth about the Garand, I have never handled one although friends used to have them and mosyt of them had them converted to 7.62x51 for cheap ammo usage. They were banned back in 1986 or so.