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tang/peep sight identification

swampthing36
I have a winchester model 60, single shot .22 rifle with a tang/peep sight. It is fastened to the top of the pistol grip. The tang of the sight wraps back against the bridge of the comb of the stock. The sight therefore flips back toward the buttstock. Anybody know what the name of this sight is or who made it. No nomenclature on the sight. I've tried to post an image on it in this forum but no luck.
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  • Bert H.
    A picture of the sight is needed. Please go to the Sticky topic that explains how to post pictures on the GB forums.
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  • swampthing36
    quote:Originally posted by Bert H.
    A picture of the sight is needed. Please go to the Sticky topic that explains how to post pictures on the GB forums.
    [img][/img]http://www.hunt101.com/showphoto.php?photo=706346
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  • rufe-snow
    Model_60_tang_sight.JPG
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  • 1KYDSTR
    Have you removed the sight and looked under the base? I have NO CLUE as to who might have made that, but I notice it is jeweled on the sides...something I'm pretty sure no sight manufacturer would have done?
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  • swampthing36
    quote:Originally posted by 1KYDSTR
    Have you removed the sight and looked under the base? I have NO CLUE as to who might have made that, but I notice it is jeweled on the sides...something I'm pretty sure no sight manufacturer would have done?
    I acquired the rifle with sight last summer. All was rusted to heck. I disassembled the sight and found no nomenclature on it. Restored all metal surfaces to the 'white', myself. Had a gunsmith jewel the tang of the sight before he blued it.
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  • Hawk Carse
    I get a picture of somebody sitting around patiently filing a base to fit the rifle and putting a Marbles or Lyman stem and disk on it.
    Tang sight on a bolt action is highly unusual.
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  • Bert H.
    The elevation stem looks like it is a Marbles. I do not recognize the base of the sight.
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  • 1KYDSTR
    I cannot be sure but the base looks like the one I have on my Remington model 8, just reversed. That might explain why you said it folded the "wrong" direction?
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  • swampthing36
    quote:Originally posted by 1KYDSTR
    I cannot be sure but the base looks like the one I have on my Remington model 8, just reversed. That might explain why you said it folded the "wrong" direction?
    Thanks for all the feedback. The sight does have a lift up clam on the side of it that would hold the stem in place for adjustment. The stem has line graduations on it. It works quite well. The kids can knock off orange juice cans at 50 yards, one after another.
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  • vepr762
    It's a Marbles Simplex stem that someone built a custom base for. It's jeweled just like the trigger and does not match any of the Marbles "special" bases I have seen, nor did Marbles ever make a special base sight for the Simplex.
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