I expected your response (), 45flint and, whilst sympathising with your eyesight these days, I agree with all you say. I have a Standard just a year or so older than your own. The trigger is crisp, the sights are first class and the groupings are sub 1inch at 30 yards. As you say, there are few open sights as clear and as sharp nearly 100 years later.

Hsing-ee, I was interested to read what you wrote and I agree with you that apertures are so much better than ordinary open sights. At school, we shot in competitions with apertures on re-barrelled .22 rifles, which had previously been .303 Lee-Enfields, at 25yds. A good shot could obtain 1/4in groupings quite easily. A pity, really, that more manufacturers did not copy the Webley Mk2 and introduce apertures on their models; probably the cost made it beyond consideration.