I am rapidly becoming a very old man...something I neither like nor can I control. I spent 30 years of my life as a cop, a great part of which involved trying to resolve conflict between people who for one reason or another, often ego, could not be civil to one another. I also have spent the last 62...

Always wanted a Winchester Pre-64 Model 70 in .257 Roberts and a Model 71. Finally got the 71 a couple of weeks ago. Found a nice original (buttplate intact-no ugly recoil pad) at Cabela's in Ft Worth...I may also find that Model 70 one of these days for less than the arm and a leg some folks think ...

.45colt wrote:I saw this on Gunbroker,Is this a homemade boltpeep on this 71? what do You Guys make of it???
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewIt ... =148636244

It looks like a replica of the original bolt-mounted peep sights on the early Winchester Model 71's.

First the Roy Rogers Museum and now this!!!

Actually I did that many years ago as a young officer, but they missed catching me!

Fascinating!

Those folks were pretty darned ingenious given their limited resources along the early American frontier. Way prior to the cartridge guns, 'smiths in the Allegheny area were putting these barrel stubs to good use. You hit the nail on the head with the "Last of the Mohicans" time frame.

A number of frontier gunsmiths and blacksmiths made hawks from cut off pieces of barrels after they were formed, or from scrap pieces of barrels from guns that were cut down to a handy length or had bulged barrels and were cut off in front of the bulge. They didn't waste much.

Texan is a state of mind...we adopt a lot of folks.

On this, the 172nd anniversary of the culmination of the "Thirteen Days of Glory", God bless Texas, and God bless the USA....all of her States.

Native Texan in DFW