backsight

The backsight is incorporated into the top of the frame.

'But that would be just as true of historical research or "backsight".'

She had taken one precious second to adjust the backsight before dropping into the Weaver stance and taking aim.

But if this could see with its backsight he'd be the grand old greeneyed lobster.

He looked down the barrel and picked up the pip of the foresight in the notch of the backsight.

He pushed up the leaf of his backsight to its 300-yard adjustment and then settled down on his elbows to peer over it.

Sixty-three close-fitting parts awaited his command, tip of the foresight in line with the backsight.

'Arm's length, finger through the trigger-guard, finger under the backsight.

The bombs were dropped when the wires of the foresight, backsight and target overlapped as seen from the bomb aimer's position.

It was fitted with a "globe and pinhead" foresight and a "buckhorn" backsight on the barrel.

Carefully, Andrea trained the Bren on that shadow-filled horseshoe and adjusted the backsight one notch up.

'Bad combination, the narrow V backsight and the barleycorn inverted V frontsight.

The bomb aimer then sights along this angle and waits for the target to appear, dropping the bombs when it appears under a notch in the backsight.

It appeared in the British United Service Magazine under the pseudonym, Lieutenant N. Backsight Forethought, who is the narrator of the book.

Lieutenant Backsight Forethought ("BF") and his command of fifty men are given the task to defend Duffer's Drift, a natural ford to a river.

The Defence of Duffer's Drift pseudonym of "Lieutenant Backsight Forethought" BF.

However, they were armed with the smoothbore Brown Bess musket (possibly the New Land Service version, with rudimentary backsight) rather than the Baker rifle.

This gives the height of the instrument above the starting (backsight) point and allows the height of the instrument (H.I.) above the datum to be computed.

The weapon seemed heavy and unbalanced after the Sharps, and the sights were crudely fashioned, a blunt cone for the foresight, and a deep vee for the backsight.

This moved the backsight directly fore and aft, and turning the heading dial adjusted how much the speed dial moved the backsight.

X replaced the vertical slider used for altitude adjustment with a horizontally-moving backsight at the top of the device, and the entire foresight and drift wire area was made considerably smaller.

For an instant the shaking foresight aligned with the crude vee of the backsight, and he let the shot fly, in flame and a billowing cloud of burnt powder smoke.

They were armed with the "New Light Infantry Land Pattern" of the standard musket, which had a rudimentary backsight to aid individual accuracy, using the bayonet lug as a foresight.

What you want to do is cut a Partridge square notch 'ere,' he tapped the backsight with his finger, 'then fit a little Redfield Sourdough front from a Mauser rifle.

Sighting was accomplished in the manner of iron sights on rifles, and the Drift Sight used the same terminology of "foresight" and "backsight", although "lower" and "upper" would be more accurate physically.