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Rebel Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 4292 Location: Rockets and Race Cars Joined: Mar 9^th, 2015	Warner & Swazey telescopic sight Mar 14^th, 2021 at 2:53pm	Print Post
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Sure shot Oldtimer Offline Posts: 890 Location: East central Iowa Joined: Jun 22^nd, 2020	Re: Warner & Swazey telescopic sight Reply #1 - Mar 15^th, 2021 at 11:38am	Print Post
	Neat find. I believe that scope is the pre-WWI to WWI era scope that was hated by just about everyone who tried to use it.


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Kurt_701 Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1010 Location: Missouri Joined: May 20^th, 2004	Re: Warner & Swazey telescopic sight Reply #2 - Mar 15^th, 2021 at 1:10pm	Print Post
	Neat find. little info here: (You need to *Login* or *Register* to view media files and links)

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Schutzenbob Frequent Elocutionist Offline Rheinisch-Westfälisc hen Sprengstoff-Fabriken Posts: 2033 Location: Nightingale, California Joined: Oct 24^th, 2005	Re: Warner & Swazey telescopic sight Reply #3 - Mar 15^th, 2021 at 2:23pm	Print Post
	Has anyone actually used one of these things? What power are they? What sort of reticule do they have? Are they any good?
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Bent_Ramrod Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1451 Location: Southern Arizona Joined: Feb 8^th, 2006	Re: Warner & Swazey telescopic sight Reply #4 - Mar 15^th, 2021 at 4:07pm	Print Post
	Herbert McBride described using one in his book A Rifleman Went To War. He said that after he tightened it down by dogging down the screws, shimming with broken razor blades and rusting the whole thing in good with iodine solution, it was pretty reliable. Said he did almost draw a court-martial when he turned the rifle back in and the armorers could hardly get it apart again.


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AZshot Full Member Offline Posts: 193 Location: Desert Southwest Joined: Nov 29^th, 2016	Re: Warner & Swazey telescopic sight Reply #5 - Mar 18^th, 2021 at 11:44am	Print Post
	That's a very rare scope.


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rgchristensen Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1083 Joined: Jan 2^nd, 2014	Re: Warner & Swazey telescopic sight Reply #6 - Mar 18^th, 2021 at 2:38pm	Print Post
	It's also an early eye-cup. The recoil would push it against your face and about suck your eye out. Later ones had perforations in the rubber eye cup to break the vacuum. CHRIS


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Jeff_Schultz ASSRA Board Member Offline Posts: 1593 Location: Ransomville, NY Joined: Apr 25^th, 2004	Re: Warner & Swazey telescopic sight Reply #7 - Mar 18^th, 2021 at 4:04pm	Print Post
	rgchristensen wrote on Mar 18^th, 2021 at 2:38pm: It's also an early eye-cup. The recoil would push it against your face and about suck your eye out. Later ones had perforations in the rubber eye cup to break the vacuum. CHRIS I thought I remembered reading that somewhere! I think the writer said it would make a flincher out of a wooden indian.

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Sure shot Oldtimer Offline Posts: 890 Location: East central Iowa Joined: Jun 22^nd, 2020	Re: Warner & Swazey telescopic sight Reply #8 - Mar 18^th, 2021 at 4:47pm	Print Post
	I’ve read that in my NRA 1938 reprint of Phillip Sharpe’s “The Rifle In America” where he quotes E.C. Crossman’s book “The Book of the Springfield” Sharpe detested the Warner & Swasey scope. He said “As a telescope sight this unit should be sold at a list price of $10.00 with a discount of $9.95.”


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uscra112 Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 4079 Location: Switzerland of Ohio Joined: May 7^th, 2007	Re: Warner & Swazey telescopic sight Reply #9 - Mar 19^th, 2021 at 7:38pm	Print Post
	Trivia test: Q: Who built the big telescope for Mt. Palomar? A: Warner & Swasey. I thought they only made lathes until I read that.

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Gunfunpow Full Member Offline Posts: 239 Joined: Jun 20^th, 2018	Re: Warner & Swazey telescopic sight Reply #10 - Mar 22^nd, 2021 at 5:21pm	Print Post
	Somewhere a 1903 collector is dreaming of finding your whole ensemble at a barn sale. When I was '03 afflicted, I found a 1917 with the W&S matching scope. Thought it was pretty cool! Well, cool looking anyways. Not much to shoot with though. Your set is fairly valuable, should fetch a good sum. Good luck!


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