headhunter2
CGN Regular
- Location
- Vancouver Island
Identify sights please
- Thread starter headhunter2
- Start date
- Location
- Western Manitoba
Since they do not seem to have aperture inserts, any chance they might be scope mount rings? For old time straight tube scopes, with the external coil springs??
They Look like old Watson target sights. There should be spot to install a bead sight.
From their old advertisement -
THE HUNT WILL SOON BE ON. These are only a few of the great variety of Sights we make. Price$2.00 How Are Your Rifle Sights ? The Watson Sights compared with others are as silk compared with cheese cloth. They are not the cheapest on earth, but they are certainly the best. If you want to plaster every bullet with blood, the Watson Sights are the quicke stand surest means to that end. My specialty is: Giving a man exactly what he wants. Full directions for ordering found in printed matter.. T. A. WATSON CREEMORE, ONTARIO, CANADA ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. WATSONS SCOTCH. THE Sportsmans Favorite
From their old advertisement -
THE HUNT WILL SOON BE ON. These are only a few of the great variety of Sights we make. Price$2.00 How Are Your Rifle Sights ? The Watson Sights compared with others are as silk compared with cheese cloth. They are not the cheapest on earth, but they are certainly the best. If you want to plaster every bullet with blood, the Watson Sights are the quicke stand surest means to that end. My specialty is: Giving a man exactly what he wants. Full directions for ordering found in printed matter.. T. A. WATSON CREEMORE, ONTARIO, CANADA ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. WATSONS SCOTCH. THE Sportsmans Favorite
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headhunter2
CGN Regular
- Location
- Vancouver Island
Thanks mj, I took magnifying glass and flash light to read them. A couple have Watson stamped on them and most have pat'd number I can't read. One has "B&M" on it. There are arrows and what seem like size or catalog numbers on bottom. Is there any value and current usage for them (6 assorted). They are no use to me and I am doing a clean up. Is ti worth listing?
I have some stuff like that , should make up a display and post a ad , You never know , someone may need one for some strange build.
It does not cost anything to post a for sale. 10.00+ ship= about $18.oo, or a beer if close.
It does not cost anything to post a for sale. 10.00+ ship= about $18.oo, or a beer if close.
headhunter2
CGN Regular
- Location
- Vancouver Island
The only thing I found on the internet was a follow up on mj7's post. Made by Watson Sight Co. It was a Canadian company that didn't seem to last long. There was a picture of 2 old catalogs and that is all I found. Each has a post hole but no posts. Interesting piece of history.
- Location
- St. Joe's Island, Ont
Alot of the Watson sights you find aren't finished.
Theres a guy on here and sells on Ebay every now and then that used to have a pile of unfinished Watson apertures that hadn't had the actual hole drilled in them yet to see through.
I have a couple of the old Watson Savage 1899 tang sights here and have seen a few for the Winchester 1894's, also own a couple front globe sights made by them but are finished unlike yours.
Pretty cool find.
Theres a guy on here and sells on Ebay every now and then that used to have a pile of unfinished Watson apertures that hadn't had the actual hole drilled in them yet to see through.
I have a couple of the old Watson Savage 1899 tang sights here and have seen a few for the Winchester 1894's, also own a couple front globe sights made by them but are finished unlike yours.
Pretty cool find.
