I am looking for a part, which I will try and describe to you.  It is an adapter to mount something like a Redfield International on the tang of a single shot rifle.  I saw one on a Ballard years ago at a match which appeared to be a casting.  I don't know if it was a commercial product or a one off.  The base mounted like a tang sight base, but had an arm off the left side which went vertical and then had the sight mounting rail across the top like a "T".  It positioned the sight just as it would be on a receiver, but further back, clear of the bore and hammer.  A better solution than the long adapters which mount on scope blocks, I think.  Does anyone have one, or know who made them?  My application is a Ballard.  Long ago Vaver cataloged a whole sight for Ballard and Stevens rifles that worked that way, but I have never seen one.

Not on the tang but mounts a sight.

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Marlinguy,
Very nice!  That is not the one I saw, but the same idea.  I currently have a Redfield mounted on the left side of my Ballard action, but would prefer it be further back.  My brother uses a Goss so mounted because of the longer "arm" on it.  I don't really trust hanging a receiver sight on a long adapter off a scope block, that looks fragile.  I know that CPA has offered such adapters for both Anschutz and Redfield sights.  My "white whale" is the tang mounted Vaver, I have been looking for one for decades.

I don't have a picture of the other base that has the flat vertical plate that's smooth and has two holes to screw the Redfield or Lyman sight to it.
The base on it looks much like the base I pictured above, other than the vertical attachment plate.

I too have been looking for a Vaver that tang mounts on a Ballard for decades. I have a friend who found one at an auction and bought it, but I can't talk him out of it.