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clarence said
mrcvs said
I thought I would replace it with a Winchester sight, after 28 years…
I just found that globe sight in John Dutcher’s Ballard book, so you could list it on ebay as a factory Ballard sight. I’ve seen a few over the yrs, but they’re much rarer than, for ex., a Beach. Big difference, however, is that the Beach is well known & sought after, & few would be looking for this one. Ballard target rifles always used a windgauge, & most hunting rifles used a Rocky Mt. front.
This is interesting, as, to me, it looks “homemade”.
Can you post a photograph of the page in the Ballard book?
I probably need a copy of that book for my reference library.
mrcvs said
Well, that book is $350 to $500. Might be why I don’t already have it. 🙂
Well, take Bert”s $600 for your graduated, & you’ll have money for the book & another front sight. It’s a wonderful book, showing Ballards more fabulous than you can imagine! But the photo in the book merely shows the sight on a brl from the top. The one I have has a tapped hole in the bottom into which is screwed a plug with a very fine bead. It was a cheap way to make a (primitive) globe sight, but they weren’t popular or they wouldn’t be scarce.
clarence said
mrcvs said
Well, that book is $350 to $500. Might be why I don’t already have it. 🙂
Well, take Bert”s $600 for your graduated, & you’ll have money for the book & another front sight. It’s a wonderful book, showing Ballards more fabulous than you can imagine! But the photo in the book merely shows the sight on a brl from the top. The one I have has a tapped hole in the bottom into which is screwed a plug with a very fine bead. It was a cheap way to make a (primitive) globe sight, but they weren’t popular or they wouldn’t be scarce.
I like that graduated sight too much to even consider selling it let alone actually doing it.
It’s nice when what a sight on a rifle is worth is nearly as much as what the entire rifle and sight cost.
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