This may not be appropriate here but I thought I would try anyway.  

It is a single shot and made 100 years ago, just not a rifle.  It's a 3rd Model Perfected made late in production, 1924.  There was a small production of this 3rd model of around 7000 total from what I found.

I picked this up at auction a month ago by placing just the opening bid.  Thought I had bought a real lemon when no one else bid.  But, it turns out to be a very nice gun and with a somewhat rare Olympic chamber.  The Olympic chamber was only used in a couple thousands total I'm told.  

The problem is, and I did miss this in the auction pictures, the rear sight is missing.

I was talking with another member here about it, because I knew he had a couple, and I got some good info but, thought someone else might help a bit more.

The rear sight sits in a slot with a screw on each side that adjusts the windage.  I am assuming these screws also hold it in place.  I'm wanting to know what it looks like and some measurements if possible.  I should be able to make one at that point.

I'm hoping someone can help with either an actual sight or pictures of one removed.

Here are some picture so you know the gun style I have.
Thanks
Bob

rkba2nd wrote on May 11^th, 2025 at 4:42pm:


I’ve been on the site but did not find anything that would help.  But, I’m not a member so I may be missing something.
Bob

I have a friend here in town that has several Smith’s and none of the sight are like this.

I did make some progress on it today before family showed up.

Nice job of reverse engineering this, and figuring it out!

There's so many of these old sights out there, and no way to tell what they looked like, and conversely, so many parts no one knows what they fit.

I just put a bunch of odd sight parts into a bag today, and threw it into a drawer of stuff I have to do something with someday.  I have a sight parts organizer, and another part of one that has 100 or more unknown sight parts in it.   

There's no good way to find out what they need, or what they are to, without just putting pictures out there and relying on group knowledge.  It's tedious, and not very worthwhile, so I just dig through them now and again when I need something, and sometimes find it.

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Hi Bob
Is there an elevation adjustment for  the he sight?
Also you may want to try a peep sight apture,  I had a friend who made one and he said that it better than the partrige sight.
Later longdistance1

Crown-C wrote on May 11^th, 2025 at 6:49pm:


Richard, yours is different from what I found in my search, sights are seldom shown very well though, so who knows how many variations there are.

Here is one I found and was basing my decision as to how to make it.
Bob