Here’s a question for our micrometer sight gurus. My Winchester Model 71 is fitted with a correct code Redfield 80 receiver sight in excellent condition. The 80 is the later, removable staff version of the 70.
Problem: My Redfield 80 has target knobs, which are out of place on a hunting rifle. I have several NIB Redfield 70 receiver sights for other rifles, fitted with hunter knobs.
Possible solution: swap the knobs if they are interchangeable.
Question: Are Model 70 hunter knobs retrofittable to a Model 80 staff?
The staffs themselves are not interchangeable and what makes the 80 for a Winchester Model 71 receiver unique and expensive is the long length of its bridge.
One apparent difference I see is the 70 knobs are attached with small screws whereas the 80 knobs are attached with cheaper pins.
Perhaps I should find a Redfield 80-h for a once common rifle, e.g. a Remington 740/760 and use its knobs?
All knowledgeable advice appreciated. Buying a 98A bolt peep is excluded from “knowledgeable advice.”
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA, 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.
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