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westerner Frequent Elocutionist Offline deleted posts and threads record holder. Posts: 11421 Location: Why, out West of course Joined: May 29^th, 2006	Re: The wonderful Ballard Reply #45 - Aug 30^th, 2021 at 12:52am	Print Post
	Ballard rifles took first and second place this weekend at the Bitteroot 100 shot match. Joe

	A blind squirrel runs into a tree every once in a while.
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GT Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 2028 Location: Northeast Wyoming Joined: Jun 28^th, 2015	Re: The wonderful Ballard Reply #46 - Aug 30^th, 2021 at 1:41am	Print Post
	Joe, glad to hear that. Wonderful Ballard... yes they are and it seemed to light a fire again, at least for the weekend. I'm not going to hi-jack Mick's post - too much anyway. I got a couple of castings threaded and some breech blocks, internals, and wood underway. Maybe another post in the near future.

	"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk" T. A. Edison "The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right" M.T.
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waterman Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 2825 Location: Behind the Redwood Curtain Joined: Jun 9^th, 2004	Re: The wonderful Ballard Reply #47 - Aug 30^th, 2021 at 12:44pm	Print Post
	westerner wrote on Aug 29^th, 2021 at 11:01pm: waterman wrote on Aug 28^th, 2021 at 1:46pm: westerner wrote on Aug 26^th, 2021 at 8:12pm: That sight is a Parts Unknown Pope sight. Both thumbs down! What, did I get it wrong? What is it then? I got it from Buffalo Arms a long time ago. I have a PU Pope tang sight. If you touch it, the windage adjustment will probably change. Very sloppy work for too many $$.


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GT Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 2028 Location: Northeast Wyoming Joined: Jun 28^th, 2015	Re: The wonderful Ballard Reply #48 - Aug 30^th, 2021 at 1:52pm	Print Post
	I'm a little slow Waterman, I understand what you were getting at now. I had one I picked up and it had similar issues, and a windage front sight too. I let the Pope rear go away to someone needing it worse, but for the front sight, I used a little machinist in a drum - green locktite- it took a couple times to get it just right -take it apart, apply, let it cure, carefully scrape to fit. I'm using it this year on a Ballard. Greg

	"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk" T. A. Edison "The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right" M.T.
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westerner Frequent Elocutionist Offline deleted posts and threads record holder. Posts: 11421 Location: Why, out West of course Joined: May 29^th, 2006	Re: The wonderful Ballard Reply #49 - Aug 30^th, 2021 at 4:47pm	Print Post
	Oh, I thought maybe I got the manufacturers name wrong. I had the same problem with mine when I got it. The cross slide was the only sloppy part of the sight. I moved the slide all the way to one side then using a center punch upset some metal with a punch mark to tighten the slide. Have been using the sight for many years with no issues. It worked flawlessly last weekend when making many windage adjustments in a match. And no pesky staff sticking up to hit the brim of my hat.

	A blind squirrel runs into a tree every once in a while.
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Green_Frog Frequent Elocutionist Offline "It ain't easy being green" ASSRA Life #281 Posts: 3998 Location: Lynchburg, VA Joined: Apr 18^th, 2004	Re: The wonderful Ballard Reply #50 - Sep 5^th, 2021 at 1:02am	Print Post
	I had the opportunity to examine one of the Pope Sight reproductions Sergio was selling. He sent it to Ken Hurst who loaned it to me long enough to do a review for the SSR Journal. Nice sight, but it was cumbersome to adjust. The similarly styled sight made by Lyman (Model 52??) is much more user friendly. JMHO, YMMV. Froggie


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