Did some cutting and filing and fitting and tapping to make a couple of dovetail fillers. One for a rear rifle sight that I replaced with a Johnson peep. The other to fill the loading lever latch dovetail on a London Navy. Not perfect, but they fit nice and tight and will do a protec.
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Interesting , I was just chatting about rear sights on ml cape rifles with gunny Roy 140 miles away in Norfolk uk The only one with flip sights marked was the later martini out to 700 yards plus a ladder sight. Came from South Africa From comparison of flip leaves hight I came up with 200 yards max for the ml 12 bore cape rifle, by Hollis. The Reilly .6 cape rifle I thought it would be 500 yards Many double rifles I come across only have a standing V plus one leaf sight as in my .577 percussion big game rifle,1830 This simple sight seems to have been on most double rifles way into the cartridge period Hope it’s of interest and something to chat about .
I epoxied my £170. 12 bore cape stock, useless epoxy , just cracked open whilst playing with it , yes if you don’t succeed, give up, ha ha a previous broken stock did well In the log burner
Cold wet and miserable west of London
A happy new year when it comes ha ha. God bless you all
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