Unertl scope vintage rifle

[grauhanen]

Geez!

Most of them look like the barrels are bent!

Indeed. The barrels may appear to be bent, but they are not.

As noted, the images are from a book, likely the authoritative Mauser rimfire book by Jon Speed. When a book is opened, the pages may not lay flat like a single piece of paper on a flat surface. There's some curvature on the book page that is captured when taking its picture.

There are image-taking technologies that are able to reduce the curvature effect, but they don't appear to have been used with the images reproduced above.

 

[tacfoley]

I have the book, as well as an ES350B, and if anybody here really needs flat images I can take them. BTW, it was Jon Speed himself that found me a correct rear sight unit for my ES350B, which was sold to me in 1991 without it, but WITH the scope and mounts - for £80!

Best deal I ever made.

 

[Brutus]

I have the book, as well as an ES350B, and if anybody here really needs flat images I can take them. BTW, it was Jon Speed himself that found me a correct rear sight unit for my ES350B, which was sold to me in 1991 without it, but WITH the scope and mounts - for £80!

Best deal I ever made.

It must be some kind of strange trend with these rifles.
Mine came with some kind of Anschutz rear sight. Not the proper factory rear sight.
Was the only out of spec part.
And it's not just me because I have a Gun Collector book. Same publisher that put out Gun Digest. There's a chapter in it regarding small bore Mauser rifles. And they show the improper Anschutz(?) rear sight as OEM equipment on the ES350B. Quite odd actually.
I didn't discover this until some years later.

Tacfoley you made out great !!

 

[tacfoley]

If you drop me an email I can send you some pics of mine. See your PMs.

 

[tacfoley]

Well, my rifle came without the correct micro adjustable backsight. Almost fifteen years later, Jon speed, on vacation in the US, emailed me to say that he'd found one at a show and if I was interested, he was happy to send it over to me.

There were two downsides -

1. the vendor wanted $300 for it.

2. It was 'in the white' and would need to be blued to match the gun or it would stand out like a sore thumb.

I bought it, and he sent it to a friend in Oregon who was coming over to stay with us for a while to save international shipping. I had it correctly blued, or 'blacked' as it is called here, by the late Ron Wharton of Rigby fame at his shop in Horsham, Surrey. THAT was expensive, as he had to arrange a one-day HAZMAT license to use arsenical bluing salts. However, once it was done, it was a perfect match for the rifle and it still looks like new sixteen years later. If you can post images here - I can't, for reasons I can't comprehend - I'm sure that there are a few folks who'd like to see it.

 

[chasseur]

The original rear sight should be serial numbered to the gun.To view the serial number the sight has to be removed.I have a Mauser ES 350 with a matching numbered sight

 

[tacfoley]

That's the one. What a lovely piece of small-scale engineering it is. Mine has nothing on it at all - I just looked, probably because it was un-blued and had never been ascribed to any rifle. Had I known about that little snippet, I could have asked Ron to put the serial number on for me. As a builder of Mauser-style rifles when working at John Rigby, and after, when working for himself, he would have had the correct type-face stamps and the jigs to line them up properly. Too late now - he died in his sleep, still quite young, about five or six years back.

BTW - I like the way you've lined up the hash-mark at the front of the sight with the letter N on the graduations. For those unaware of the significance of that, it represents the 'n' for 'normal' sight distance between the foresight and backsight of the Gew.98[K] service arm of the Wehrmacht, to train 'non-military not-Hitler Youth' members of local shooting clubs and get them used to looking at the correct sight distance for a military arm if they ever needed to know [yeah, right.]