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Offline oltom

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the memphis gun rear sight......
« on: December 13, 2009, 01:56:17 AM »
thought you fellows wanted to see the sight on that memphis gun i saw at the ceramony couple weeks back~
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Re: the memphis gun rear sight......
« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2009, 04:46:05 AM »
Interesting, now if you could tell us more...what kind of gun, or do you have photos?  I'd be quite interested if that sight was something original on an orignial CW gun.  If it is some modern shooter's creation, I'm not so interested.  The sight looks like a neat idea but in practice it would suffer in loss of accuracy unless the wheels were perfectly level.
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Re: the memphis gun rear sight......
« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2009, 09:00:11 PM »
The cannon is of Southern manufacture, but even with these other pics, I still can't make out what it is. I would think that even the most hard pressed Confederate manufacturer would have managed to bore the peepholes in that rear sight in a straight vertical line.

http://www.gboreloaded.com/forums/index.php/topic,187908.msg1098933003.html#msg1098933003
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Re: the memphis gun rear sight......
« Reply #3 on: December 13, 2009, 09:26:11 PM »
Judging from the breech shape, it is a model of 1841, though can't say what caliber since there is nothing there to scale from.
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