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Model 8 - What is this?

Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 3:10 pm
by 81police
Received a parts gun today. What do you guys make of this custom dovetailed sight/scope mount? Any idea what it might have been for? I've never seen anything like it.

Notice you can see the bolt carrier (w/out extractor) through the groove, I'm surprised there wasn't any rubbing during cycling, but I checked the bolt carrier and there's no wear marks. You never can tell what you'll find with these old spring poles :roll:

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Re: Model 8 - What is this?

Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 4:52 pm
by Silvermino
Hi Cam,

That rifle wouldn't happen to have a hard rubber butt plate that you might be interested in selling would it?

John

Re: Model 8 - What is this?

Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 5:33 am
by Hardrada55
That's bizarre. Though, I'd love to see the sight that went in that. That took a lot of work. What were they thinking?

Re: Model 8 - What is this?

Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 8:34 am
by Loren in MN
Looks like it had 4 screws giving pressure on the mount to tighten the dovetail. Someone possibly added a homemade peepsight.

Re: Model 8 - What is this?

Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 12:28 pm
by Behemotosh
I may be wrong, but I think it's a slot for a receiver mounted peep sight. Does the gunhave a relatively high front sight. A higher front sight was necessary if a receiver mounted peep was installed.

Shoot straight!