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Need Help to ID a Long Range Sight
Mar 10th, 2008 at 8:30am
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I bought a C. Sharps '75 and it had this sight. Anyone know who made it?? See photo of staff.
The staff is just unter 4" tall
Thank you in advance,
Ken
  
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Re: Need Help to ID a Long Range Sight
Reply #1 - Mar 10th, 2008 at 10:42am
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Yup, looks like and Itialian wig-wag sight. I had one I used with another shorter sight to make a Goodwin style tang sight.   

In their original configuration, I think they are worse than junk.

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Re: Need Help to ID a Long Range Sight
Reply #2 - Mar 11th, 2008 at 12:15am
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ssdave wrote on Mar 10th, 2008 at 9:38am:
Looks like an italian made clunker to me.  It leans to adjust windage, by adjusting the two side screws, right?  That system is one of their hallmarks.

dave


As I understand it, the screw adjustments were (are) to adjust the staff into vertical alignment to correct any sideways wandering that would otherwise occur, while making elevation changes on a staff that was not perfectly vertically aligned with the rifle.

I suspect that anyone that was using this "feature" to adjust for windage, would get all the misery they deserved, plus a little. Smiley

It would hardly fall into anyones definition of "repeatable results", and would be a right time with a pocket calculator to figure out how far over for how far up, to get the required change in POI.

The finish looks like the Italian sights I was looking at. 

Cheers
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