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Skeeter355 Newbie Offline Posts: 6 Joined: Dec 30^th, 2025	Need help on Soule sight identification Dec 30^th, 2025 at 8:24pm	Print Post
	New member here and have a Shiloh 1874 40-65 inbound that has a Soule sight I need help identifying. The seller only sent pictures but no further information. It appears to have windage adjustment on both the base and staff. Thanks for your help. Skeeter


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KensBullard Junior Member Offline Posts: 50 Location: Woodland Wa Joined: Dec 17^th, 2024	Re: Need help on Soule sight identification Reply #1 - Dec 30^th, 2025 at 8:36pm	Print Post
	That's not a Soule sight. it's a sharps tang sight.


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Skeeter355 Newbie Offline Posts: 6 Joined: Dec 30^th, 2025	Re: Need help on Soule sight identification Reply #2 - Dec 30^th, 2025 at 8:55pm	Print Post
	Is the knob near the base just to lock the sight in position? Any idea of the make of the sight? Thanks Skeeter


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TomKlinger Full Member Offline Posts: 210 Location: Central Florida Joined: Feb 17^th, 2019	Re: Need help on Soule sight identification Reply #3 - Dec 31^st, 2025 at 7:35am	Print Post
	Skeeter335 I have one just like yours, it is an MVA. Tom Klinger


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JKR Full Member Offline Posts: 107 Joined: Nov 2^nd, 2021	Re: Need help on Soule sight identification Reply #4 - Dec 31^st, 2025 at 7:56am	Print Post
	Skeeter, You’ve been given correct information from KensBullard and TomKlinger. The knob at the base is simply the cross bolt holding the staff to the base. It allows the staff to pivot forward on recoil and backward for access to the breech. The spring in front of the staff holds the staff in upright position for shooting. Nice Sharps by the way! JKR


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KensBullard Junior Member Offline Posts: 50 Location: Woodland Wa Joined: Dec 17^th, 2024	Re: Need help on Soule sight identification Reply #5 - Dec 31^st, 2025 at 9:40am	Print Post
	sight could have been made by a # of shops Axtell, MVA, Parts unknow,C Sharps, remember to unscrew the eye cup alittle whene you set the windage.


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 17500 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: Need help on Soule sight identification Reply #6 - Dec 31^st, 2025 at 10:20am	Print Post
	There's no windage in the base, the knob is so a shooter can unscrew the pivot screw to remove the staff without needing a screwdriver.

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Skeeter355 Newbie Offline Posts: 6 Joined: Dec 30^th, 2025	Re: Need help on Soule sight identification Reply #7 - Dec 31^st, 2025 at 1:46pm	Print Post
	Perfect! Thanks for all the help. I have Baldwin soules on my other two rifles but guess he’s retired now. Will be looking for another one I think for consistency between guns but will use what it has initially. If I remember correctly did Baldwin’s Sharps/Winchester base work interchangeably between the two models? Thanks Skeeter


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 17500 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: Need help on Soule sight identification Reply #8 - Dec 31^st, 2025 at 4:53pm	Print Post
	Winchester uses 2.28125" hole spacing, and Sharps used 2.125" spacing. Sharps also used 1.125" spacing the same as Marlin used.

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Skeeter355 Newbie Offline Posts: 6 Joined: Dec 30^th, 2025	Re: Need help on Soule sight identification Reply #9 - yesterday at 2:55pm	Print Post
	The reason I asked about the Winchester/Sharps being the same is because I have a Pedersoli Win 1886 and a Pedersoli Lyman 1878 Sharps that both have the same hole spacing of approximately 2.17” and they have the same Baldwin base on them. My Shiloh 1877 has a Baldwin base that is approximately 1.13” so I’ll have to wait until I pickup the rifle this weekend to see what spacing it has on it. Thanks Skeeter


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 17500 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: Need help on Soule sight identification Reply #10 - yesterday at 5:13pm	Print Post
	Pedersoli rifles often don't use standard or original sight base spacing. I've got a couple friends who own Pedersoli Rolling Block rifles and both are 1.5" spacing, the same as Stevens. Originals were all 1.937" spacing on Remington rifles.

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Skeeter355 Newbie Offline Posts: 6 Joined: Dec 30^th, 2025	Re: Need help on Soule sight identification Reply #11 - yesterday at 7:55pm	Print Post
	Yeah I forgot that both my Sharps and 1886 were Pedersoli so that makes sense. I’ll check my spacing on my Shiloh and then start looking for a Baldwin base for it. Thanks Skeeter


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