krs
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I have a nice Stevens Schuetzen rifle with a possible Harry Poe heavy octagon barrel in .22 LR that I've had hanging around for over twenty years. The serial number is 4646.
I bought the rifle with factory scope blocks and a front sight installed, but only two threaded holes where the original tang sight was installed.
I'm now interested in the rifle - actually my wife began to want to shoot it when I started talking about maybe selling it - so I'd like to find an appropriate sight for it. I don't mind a reproduction sight but the hole spacing is only 1.48" (probably meant as 1.5" when it was built in the 1920's -1930's).
Is there anyone here who knows of sources for such sights? I've been through all of the available Marbles and Lyman product descriptions and none of theirs has such spacing. I don't think they'd be tall enough for the rifle anyway.
The only photo I have is this one:
The thumbnailed photo is one of a similar gun that I took from an auction house yesterday. It shows a correct sight. Nicer rifle too - that one sold for about $7K.
Apologies for the crummy photo quality. That image dates back to my first digital camera, a Sony FD71 of about 1/3 meg.
The sight in the photo is a cheap and wiggly one that I bought somewhere. It has since broken right out of it's mount and is unusable. It waved around so much it was unusable when new too.
I bought the rifle with factory scope blocks and a front sight installed, but only two threaded holes where the original tang sight was installed.
I'm now interested in the rifle - actually my wife began to want to shoot it when I started talking about maybe selling it - so I'd like to find an appropriate sight for it. I don't mind a reproduction sight but the hole spacing is only 1.48" (probably meant as 1.5" when it was built in the 1920's -1930's).
Is there anyone here who knows of sources for such sights? I've been through all of the available Marbles and Lyman product descriptions and none of theirs has such spacing. I don't think they'd be tall enough for the rifle anyway.
The only photo I have is this one:
The thumbnailed photo is one of a similar gun that I took from an auction house yesterday. It shows a correct sight. Nicer rifle too - that one sold for about $7K.
Apologies for the crummy photo quality. That image dates back to my first digital camera, a Sony FD71 of about 1/3 meg.
The sight in the photo is a cheap and wiggly one that I bought somewhere. It has since broken right out of it's mount and is unusable. It waved around so much it was unusable when new too.
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