The Columbia Precision Tang Sight For Winchesters

[Pete44ru]

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Interesting - the price seems high, though.

http://www.columbiaprecision.com/home.html





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[Sixgun]

I've had one for 30 years.....before Lyman and Marbles reintroduced theirs. It has windage adjustment just by loosening the main screw and sliding the whole stem the way you want it to go. What I don't like about it that elevation adjustment is by turning the stem so there are no half turns/quarter turns etc. it's a whole turn in or out. Maybe it's not like that anymore...dunno

I had it mounted on an 1890 Winchester for about a million years and then decided to put it on a pre war Model 61 Winchester but obviously, the stem was too tall so I made a stem to replace the tall one and she works great. IIRC the sight costs me $30 sometime around 1990.---6

[Pete44ru]

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$30 twenty-eight years ago, $165 today - but the current tang sight doesn't look like the short base unit on your rifle, Six... (BTW, I like it on your rifle - nice)

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[crs]

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Interesting to see how many discriminating shooters have M61 slide actions. Mine took many P Dogs when new and won many turkey shoots until my family grew tired of turkey. I had put a scope it to see the sights and target better and it still will eat out the X ring or knock a squirrel out of a tree with a head shot.
Teaching Grandson to shoot it a few years ago.

[Sixgun]

I hear ya crs.....having owned, still own, heard from other owners that Winchester put a target barrel on all of their .22's, even economy grade ones back in the day. I keep a ...made in the thirties....model 72 bolt gun/tube mag in the barn....with a Leupold scope that is squirrel accurate to 140 yards...my seeable limit.... A Ruger 10-22 that sits next to it iis about half as accurate. Another .22, a Winchester Lo-Wall musket is as accurate as the 72 but can't do distance as it's open sighted and I can't see open sights much past 100----6

[Blaine]

I hear ya crs.....having owned, still own, heard from other owners that Winchester put a target barrel on all of their .22's, even economy grade ones back in the day. I keep a ...made in the thirties....model 72 bolt gun/tube mag in the barn....with a Leupold scope that is squirrel accurate to 140 yards...my seeable limit.... A Ruger 10-22 that sits next to it iis about half as accurate. Another .22, a Winchester Lo-Wall musket is as accurate as the 72 but can't do distance as it's open sighted and I can't see open sights much past 100----6

Six...I have an old Mdl 72, tube fed that is WWII-ish...how did you mount that scope? Honest....I've never missed a squill with that shooter, but they were a lot closer than 140 yards, and just with the factory irons...

[Sixgun]

It's just a standard Weaver base drilled and tapped into the receiver. If your gun is unaltered, well, model 72's are not exactly premium pre war guns and you might lose a hundred off the value or about half what's it's worth. The scope allows you to use the full potential of its accuracy.----6

[crs]

OK guys, not to be out done -
As a teenager, laying on the top of the dirt mound left by the dozer that dug the slush pit for the oil well in the PD town, using M61 iron sights and .22 long rifle ammo, I shot off the top of the head of a PD standing on its mound at 175 stepped-off yards!
I did shoot that PD town a lot, but that was my longest such shot.