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Re: Maynard front sight
Reply #15 - Oct 19th, 2011 at 11:20pm
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Thanks Mike.  Have seen all the Maynards at halps.   I was assuming Hank wanted to see the Maynard windgauge sight, so thats what I was looking for.

Hank, Is that the sight you wanted to see?   


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Reply #16 - Oct 20th, 2011 at 2:24am
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Got a PM from a member who says he's seen half a dozen Maynard windgauge sights on Remington Creedmoor target rifles.  

Heres another one.   

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Re: Maynard front sight
Reply #17 - Oct 20th, 2011 at 3:01pm
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Hank45! Where are you?  How are we doing on your thread?  Has it been helpful?   

If I had a Maynard windgauge sight I would have posted a picture of it for you.  I did the best I could.   

Thanks for starting an interesting thread.    Wink


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Reply #18 - Oct 22nd, 2011 at 5:49pm
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Westerner, I am satisified with the answer to my question about the maynard wing guage front sight,  thanks for all the answers, Hank
  
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Reply #19 - Oct 30th, 2011 at 11:40pm
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Just for grins, take a quick peek at Stroebel's Old Gunsights book on the BACK outside cover, just to the right of the Pope tang sight.     Wink
  
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Reply #20 - Oct 31st, 2011 at 2:20pm
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BP wrote on Oct 30th, 2011 at 11:40pm:
Just for grins, take a quick peek at Stroebel's Old Gunsights book on the BACK outside cover, just to the right of the Pope tang sight.     Wink


It's on the front cover too. I couldnt find any mention of the sight in the text.  Still a heck of a good book. Wished he'd do another one. Updated.

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Reply #21 - Nov 2nd, 2011 at 3:56pm
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Great thread!

I had never seen a Mass. Arms windgage front sight before - just drawings in old Maynard literature...so I doubted that any still existed. I've seen many of the shimmed Ballard windgage signts on high-grade Maynards and assumed that Maynard normally utilized the shimmed Ballard sights. Over the years, I've had several Maynards come into my hands with the shimmed Ballard front sights - and several with early Remington windgage sights. Remington and Maynard shared that same large dovetail size, but I assumed that those were simplly replacements because they fit - and Maynard sights were practically unobtainable. Lots of stuff was unobtainable in those days before internet searches!  Smiley

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Re: Maynard front sight
Reply #22 - Nov 3rd, 2011 at 12:17am
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I agree XTM, interesting thread.  What befuddles me is the lack of text on a sight thats on the cover of Stroebels book. Front and rear cover. For a long time I thought it was a Pope sight since its paired with a Pope windgauge sight in one of the pictures.  Turns out Pope never made a windgauge sight.  Well, one has never turned up, I should say. 

I had the same thoughts, thought I'd never see one.   


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Re: Maynard front sight
Reply #23 - Nov 3rd, 2011 at 1:00am
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Joe, 

That Pope tang sight does have windage, not in the base, but in the top sort of like the Lyman #47 stem.

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Reply #24 - Nov 3rd, 2011 at 1:10am
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BP, I meant to say Pope never made a windgauge (front) sight.   

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Reply #25 - Nov 3rd, 2011 at 1:21am
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Joe,

My mistake. I'm still glancing at the back cover. Are you referring to the Lyman 144 to the right of the Maynard sight on the front? 

  
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Reply #26 - Nov 3rd, 2011 at 2:09am
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On the rear cover, upper right.  Shows a windgauge Pope rear sight and a Maynard windgauge front sight.   

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Re: Maynard front sight
Reply #27 - Nov 6th, 2011 at 5:41am
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Heres whats on the covers of my book, BP.  

I find no mention of the Maynard windgauge front sights shown, in the text.   

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Re: Maynard front sight
Reply #28 - Nov 6th, 2011 at 5:03pm
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Joe, 

Thanks for the pictures. I'm back on track and seeing the same thing. I was starting to wonder if maybe there might have been different editions of the book. 

Interesting about the text, Stroebel calls out the front windgauge sight shown in the Maynard 1880 catalog cut (letter G below its base) as a Marlin Windgauge Front Globe Sight.      Huh

  
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Re: Maynard front sight
Reply #29 - Nov 7th, 2011 at 12:43am
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And yet the Maynard WG is seen on Remington Creedmoor rifles, not Maynard Creedmoor rifles.    Undecided

Someone knows the answer. Some rifle crank who is not a member of this forum.  


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