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texasmac Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 2214 Location: Central Texas Joined: Aug 16^th, 2004	New to me - Wards Telescope Sight Model 10 Jan 30^th, 2015 at 10:56pm	Print Post
	For the sight collector. That is one weird looking sight - new to me. (You need to *Login* or *Register* to view media files and links) Wayne

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frnkeore Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 7770 Location: Central Point, OR 97502 Joined: Jun 16^th, 2010	Re: New to me - Wards Telescope Sight Model 10 Reply #1 - Jan 31^st, 2015 at 1:03am	Print Post
	It's diffenently not weird to me. It's made by Mossberg. They are quality for their period and the scope itself, has it's roots at Stevens (Mossberg worked there). The front turret, is excellent quality and the rear, works something like a U-joint, it clamps to the tube and swivels in two axis. The thread pitch is, as I remember 72 per inch so, that it doen't need wide spacing. They are made in both friction and click adjustments. I own about 20 of the turrets. Frank

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texasmac Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 2214 Location: Central Texas Joined: Aug 16^th, 2004	Re: New to me - Wards Telescope Sight Model 10 Reply #2 - Jan 31^st, 2015 at 1:56am	Print Post
	Hi Frank, Unusual or odd are probably better descriptors, and that applies to the mounting hardware, not the main scope body. I'm not a scope collector but have looked at a bunch of classical scopes and flipped through books on old scopes and never ran across this type of configuration, so it struck me as unusual. I've got Fecker scopes on several of my rifles. I just pulled out Nick Stroebel's book, Old Gunsights & Rifle Scopes, opened it up to the Mossberg section and could not locate a photo of a scope with the same mounting hardware. Wayne

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Bnelson Full Member Offline Posts: 201 Location: Lower Michigan Joined: Jan 5^th, 2009	Re: New to me - Wards Telescope Sight Model 10 Reply #3 - Jan 31^st, 2015 at 9:25am	Print Post
	I've got a couple of these also. All of the bases I've seen have the word "Newton" cast into it inside an oval. Always wondered if they were made by the Newton rifle company as a side job or just what the story was. Bruce


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 18351 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: New to me - Wards Telescope Sight Model 10 Reply #4 - Jan 31^st, 2015 at 10:18am	Print Post
	Same here. I have a couple of them also, and they used to be almost worthless. Most shooters thought they were crude, and not easy to make adjustments, and I passed up a lot of these mounts at various gun shows for a few dollars. Wish I had any idea they'd someday become collectible back then!

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