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Old 06-23-2017, 12:20 AM
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Here is a Colt New Service .357 Magnum from my collection shipped in 1941 to the Androscoggin County Sheriff's Office in Maine.





Anyone have an idea who manufactured the sights?

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The banded ramp looks like a Pacific Gun Sight Co from the band contour where it meets the bottom of the ramp edge..
I think maybe the ramp itself has been cut back from a longer length (rifle sight) for better use on the revolver.
Their sights were usually all marked with a small 'PACIFIC' stamp though. Not that the marking couldn't have been removed in some carefull profiling or reworking of the sight for it's current purpose.

They made sights & reloading tools from the 20's into the mid 50's. Then dropped the sight mfg biz and continued w/reloading tools.

Most (all?) of the early front ramps were made to fit 'blade' front inserts w/a cross pin holding the blade into the ramp.
Later ones had a dovetail cut IIRC.

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