Anschutz Tube sight

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Hi folks, I am looking for some help here on this one. I purchased this tube sight this week. The seller thought it was a Tucker and I thought it was a Freeland. Turns out to be an Anschutz. Does anyone know what front globe sight I use with it. It came on a BSA Martini with a Parker Hale front globe sight PH1
Any help would great. Russ
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Never seen anything like that before, but I have seen lots of Anshutz eye pieces. With all the different adjusting rings it looks like it could have coloured filters, polarizer and diopter and iris all built in to the eye piece. If there is a sight block on the end of the barrel, just about any globe will work providing you have enough elevation adjustment on the rear tube.
 
Thanks Maynard. Google has never seen one either, it has colored eye pieces also, you rotate the ring for diopter sizes and 2 of them are colored. I think I will give a whirl.
 
It looks like a Freeland sight to me. They were available on the BSA MkIII rifles in lieu of the Parker Hale sights. It is NOT an Anschutz sight. The variable iris at the rear IS an Anschutz iris however. If you Google BSA International Mk III you will get a British NRA website which has all the information you would want and more.
 
I have done that, been there and it is not a freeland they are different.
Here's mine.

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Here's the Al Freeland. Look how they differ on the front mount. It's close but that's not it. The only name on mine is JG Anschutz.

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smaly said:
It looks like a Freeland sight to me. They were available on the BSA MkIII rifles in lieu of the Parker Hale sights. It is NOT an Anschutz sight. The variable iris at the rear IS an Anschutz iris however. If you Google BSA International Mk III you will get a British NRA website which has all the information you would want and more.
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So it's not a Feeland as you can tell by the picture and it is not a Tucker. So I think it's an Anschutz because that is what is on it. It is possible that Al Freeland made different models but it is not the same as the one on rifleman.org Does anyone have one of his catalogs? I saw one on ebay last week.

Russ
 
The external micrometer adjustment in some of the pictures look like Unertl. However there were several other scope/sight makers that might have copied or made similar type mounts and rings. Try Litschert, Lyman, Redfield just to name a few.
 
The mount for the base looks like the Freeland and the micrometer adjustments looks like the Freeland. However the way the tube is held to the front rings is different. Perhaps it is a different Freeland version of the Freeland with an Anschutz eye piece.
I am still trying to figure it out. Thanks for all your help so far. One thing for certain, it is cool.
When you rotate the eye piece the diopter changes and when you scroll through the thumb wheel the filters change from red, green, yellow, blue, grey and clear.
I am still trying to figure it out. Russ
 
There is also the chance that someone modified it over the years. The divets on the top of yours and the small brass screw looks to me like someone wanted a very positive position for the rear sight once the eye relief was established. I have seen lots of older rear sights for shooting fullbore that have been modified at one time or another to fit different actions or to fit a different sized iris'.
 
I spoke to Mac Tilton,owner of MT Guns in the U.S. about your exact gun and sight.
He is considered the guru of BSA Martinis and has bought and sold many of them.
He sold this gun to my friend who imported it in into Canada from Mac.
Mac stated he had only seen a few come through his shop and that the sight was a Tucker.
 
Lef T said:
I spoke to Mac Tilton,owner of MT Guns in the U.S. about your exact gun and sight.
He is considered the guru of BSA Martinis and has bought and sold many of them.
He sold this gun to my friend who imported it in into Canada from Mac.
Mac stated he had only seen a few come through his shop and that the sight was a Tucker.
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Well that is what the owner said but it does not look like the Tucker on this web site rifleman.org.uk/BSA_Martini_International_Mk.III.html

It looks like the Freeland. The eye piece is obviously Anschutz. I do not consider myself an expert by any stretch. This is only my forth Martini and the first with such an apparatus to look through.
Here is the Tucker
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Here is the Freeland
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Here is what I have
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You decide. Russ
 
Mac has sold MT Guns to a new gunsmith,but if you do a google search you can find the website.
The new owner is also Martini knowledgeable.
Check out the Martini forum on Rimfire Central.
Those guys know everything and will put you in the right direction.
 
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