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January 8, 2025
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I got this Uberti 1885 Highwall, 45-70 a couple years ago. Luckily Illinois got a straight wall cartridge law the next year, so I did take it out one evening. That story is for another time. I’ve wanted another sight option since then, it had the full buckhorn, but tang sights for it get spendy. My rifle doesn’t have the factory d&t receiver, so without modifying my gun. The only option was a tang. I stumbled across the dove tail adapters but they are only 1.5” long, I asked turnbull if they’d make a longer one and they said no. So I made my own, I got a Williams 3/8 dovetail 1.5” weaver adapter with the center 6-48 set screw. Then found a mossberg/wards #10 scope with mount on eBay. $75 and it had the esthetic I was looking for. I drilled a hole in the scope base for the 6-48 screw, and used epoxy to help it hold between the dovetail and scope mounts. Planning to zero it tomorrow and see how it works.
This is more of a proof of concept than anything, have $100 in it all together.
October 29, 2011
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Well done…………………..
January 20, 2023
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It looks right. And it should be able to stand up against recoil at least as well as, if not better than, the old varmint scopes without internal adjustments that were suspended in gimbals. We think of varmint rigs as soft shooting but a full house 220 Swift lets you know it when it ignites. Much more so a 25-06.
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
January 8, 2025
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The scope worked out. Wasn’t stacking rounds at 30 yds, but kept them on target once I was dialed in. Was able to ring the gong at 130 too. The glass in the scope isn’t that good. Going to look for another scope I can use with the mount. Also sighted in a Williams receiver sight on the 1886.
January 20, 2023
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Before I forget to ask, what is the height of the replacement front sight you installed?
I’ve put a receiver sight on a new 86 45-90 but haven’t sighted it in yet. I know it’s going to require a higher front sight. The barrel is 2″ longer than yours and is an octagonal of larger diameter at the muzzle, so the same would probably be a little off. However, it would be a place to start..
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
January 8, 2025
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Zebulon said
Before I forget to ask, what is the height of the replacement front sight you installed?
I’ve put a receiver sight on a new 86 45-90 but haven’t sighted it in yet. I know it’s going to require a higher front sight. The barrel is 2″ longer than yours and is an octagonal of larger diameter at the muzzle, so the same would probably be a little off. However, it would be a place to start..
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January 20, 2023
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That’s pretty far up! Did it keep you in the middle of the receiver sight’s elevation range when you were on target?
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
January 8, 2025
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The original was a .35 or so. I’m in the middle of the elevation. 2” high at 30yds and dead on at 130 with the subs. The subs shot high at 30yds with irons. So I’m expecting to have to move elevation when I get more lever evolution ammo. With the subsonic rounds recoil is light. I think they’ll work sub 75 yds for new shooters.
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