D R Greysun
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Not what I had hope it to be! Is it just me? Am I expecting to much? I don't know but it was very disappointing!
Wondersight!
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Black_Talon
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How about a range report so we can get more details? What were you expecting?
If you want to sell it, I'm in SoCal too, and might be interested in it.
If you want to sell it, I'm in SoCal too, and might be interested in it.
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D R Greysun
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I don't know what you were expecting, so can't say if it was too much. I put one on a 6 1/2" converted .455 HE 2nd a couple of years ago and the improved sight picture was worth the money to me. If you put one on, say, a 4" post-war M&P with a good, square notch in the rear that shot to point of aim to start, I can see why it might not improve your performance.
DR, If you don't hand some laudry, we will just asssume there is a problem without knowing what it might be???
I have been temped to purchase a repro for my early blade and thin notch revolvers... What was your experience?
I have been temped to purchase a repro for my early blade and thin notch revolvers... What was your experience?
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D R Greysun
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Look I don't want to bash the Wondersight, It seems to work for some people and that's great. Simply said, when I received it I could not mount it with the hardware supplied. There is also an alignment issue that I don't feel should be there. To others it may not be an issue to me it is!
D R
To scratch a little itch I considered getting one, but after looking at them and thinking about it I decided against it. I have a late 40's vintage M&P (nothing special, just a shooter) that I wanted to improve the sight arrangement beyond the groove in the topstrap. I thought a Wondersight would do that, however after studying on it I figured that this would only occur if the sight notch was higher than the topstrap. (If I'm in error here, WS owners, please correct me.) Naturally, this would raise the point of impact beyond what I would prefer on this gun.....maybe OK for a 6 o'clock hold on a 25 yard target, but that's not what I am especially interested in.
Solution? I picked up a 15-3 that needed a little TLC and it shoots
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I am an idiot, but that itch got scratched.
Solution? I picked up a 15-3 that needed a little TLC and it shoots
.I am an idiot, but that itch got scratched.
I've used the Wonder sites for about 15 years now on several K and N frames and have had very good results.
They are only to be used on five screw guns that have the bug screw on top of the side plate.
They are only to be used on five screw guns that have the bug screw on top of the side plate.
I have bought two of them recently and like them. I did have to widen the slot a bit so the sight could be adjusted up and down, but otherwise, it is a good product. I can now shoot my .32-20 and hit where the gun points.
I have a friends 1917 here to play with that has a wondersight installed. Shooting it , it works as intended but to me distracts from the appearance of this old gun.
Marksman
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Several years ago I put a Wondersight on a 5" Triple Lock, it improved the sight picture and was the simplest way to add an adjustable sight without modifying the revolver. I found the Wondersights sight notch to be shallow and wide, I made a blade from some blued steel shim stock with notch dimensions that suited me and epoxied it on the back of the Wondersight. Problem solved, I was satisfied with the Wondersight.
Bob Smalser
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Besides utility, there's something about the looks of these vintage aftermarket sights that's more difficult to define. It's more than just vintage "cool".....they speak to an owner who was a marksman with all that entails, not merely another face in the crowd of gun owners.
Like the silver-mounted 1918 SMLE below we collected near the Yemeni border of Oman below, literally buying it off the back of a camel from a merchant of a Meheri tribe. While there are no shortage of tribal guns in that primitive part of the world, most of them are poorly-cared-for junkers. This one was different. The finish showed its age, but the insides, sights and bore were spotless. The owner was more than just another Bedu tribesman and herder....he was a rifleman. Much of the original silver was replaced by brass studs as the owner pried them off to use as currency over the decades. Did this rifle take Oryx and Gazelle to feed the owner's family? Did it kill the occasional Leopard endangering his herds? Did it participate in intertribal raids or even the Dhofar Rebellion? If only this rifle could tell its tales.
Wondersights are part of that....one of the reasons I like old guns so much.
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I have a friends old 1917 with a wonder sight just like Bob Smalser's pic. The old gun shoots to POA with it.
