W.T.B. LYMAN #38 D.A.|General Discussions & Questions|Forum|Winchester Collector

There’s one on Ebay for $649

What condition do you need?

Mike, for the condition you want, I don’t think $600 plus is “overpriced” or very much so. I see the seller may accept a “best offer”.  If the sight is to your liking you might want to make an offer.  The Lyman 38 is harder to find than the 21 and neither is easy. I don’t own one but I ‘ve been following their prices for twenty years. 

The cheapest ones I’ve seen are those included in the sale of a beat up rifle. Usually those sights  take some restoration. 

Buffalo Arms still advertises a Peabody type (Lyman 21) reproduction sight for about $170 USD but it has been “out of stock” for a while. New England Custom Gun used to make a considerably more expensive reproduction but doesn’t catalog it that I can see. 

I don’t know whether the comparison is apt but I had been looking on and off for a Lyman 48F since about 2002. A local dealer had one back them but wanted $250 for it.  Too rich for my blood. I also wanted a Redfield 70E for a Model 94 carbine I owned and the dealer sold me a nice one for $35.  To give you an idea of the market. 

When I got really serious a year or so ago about a 48F,  I was pointed to a fine specimen on eBay but it took $485 of the $500 I’d authorized Snipe to bid for me. The guy just behind me had bid only a couple of bucks less and there were any number of other bidders tapped out at $475-$480. Still, I’ve had several Winchester collectors scoff and tell me I paid too much. None of them could tell me where the cheaper ones were, however. 

I hope you can prove me wrong. 

Ben, I just sold my 48F for $485 on GB. After the site gets its ounces of flesh I will net out about $450, so got out with a whole skin and only a minor tatoo.

Took the newly re-scoped [Leupold Compact 2x-7x in an original Redfield Jr. One-piece base] 52C to the club for a session with the usual suspects. Here’s Jeremy experiencing its superb Micro Motion trigger. 

Congratulations to the OP for scoring a Lyman 21.  I do think it gives the Model 94 a more serious demeanor.

Yeah but still no barbecue. Just talked to OldCrankyYankee and he may come to Baghdad-on-the-Trinity next year and he’s expecting me to show him the best barbecue joints. Apparently he’s sick of chowda and whatever passes for beef in the frozen North. He had his wood stove on this afternoon! 

Mike and Jerry refuse to discuss which BBQ place  is best when either is armed so I still don’t have the straight dope. 

For almost as long as I’ve lived in North Texas,  the top shelf was occupied by Angelo’s in White Settlement,  on the North side of the West Fork of the river, across from downtown Fort Worth. But a couple of years ago I had lunch there and it had fallen on hard times.

Angelo’s used to be the place the entire Tarrant County bench and bar went for lunch. If you were in the middle of a case over there,  you had to caution your client not to run his mouth over the brisket, beans and potato salad, which they had a tendency to do after the second big stein.Turn around and you almost elbowed His Honor, sitting with his pretty clerk and the Bailiff. Two tables away sat your opposing counsel, preening before half the jury that was sitting along the wall. And witnesses, very interested in what could be overheard. 

It got to a point I made our entire side bring sack lunches and eat on the riverbank if the weather was nice. In their cars if it wasn’t. Angelo”s was worse than the Casbah for spies and sound thieves.