Old Gunsights & Rifle Scopes; Identification & Price Guide
Iola, WI: Gun Digest Books (an Imprint of F & W Media Inc.), 2008. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. 583 pages. Illustrations (including a color inset). Includes Dedication, Acknowledgments, and Preface. Part One, Old Gunsights, includes The Independent Makers, and The Proprietary Makers. Part Two: Rifle Scopes, includes Scopes, Scope Mounts, and Scope Attachments. Part 3, Scope Attachments, includes Power Boosters. Inside this book, there are over 750 photographs, along with market values for collectible scopes and sights from the mid-1800's through 1985. There are full descriptions and original specs for sights from Christy, King, Lyman, Marble, Pacific, Redfield, Wittect-Vaver, Williams, Ballard, Bullard, Colt, High Standard, Farrow, Marlin, Maynard, Mossberg, Remington, Savage, Sharps, Smith & Wesson, Spencer, Stevens, Wesson, Whitney, and Winchester, as well as scopes from Leupold, Lyman, Marble Arms, Ackley, Redfield, Weaver, Stevens, and many more. Laid in is a folded sheet, printed on one side only on Scope Bases from the John Unertl Optical Company! Nick Stroebel was a licensed dealer of collector firearms and had been collecting old gunsights and scopes for more than a quarter century. He had been actively participating in competitive shooting with rifles, handguns and shotguns. Nick Stroebel's excellent book, OLD GUNSIGHTS, recalls an age not so long ago when hunters went into the field with rifles which mounted iron sights instead of the scopes seen universally today. Yes, there was a time BEFORE SCOPES (BS) and real hunters carried real rifles with iron sights. Condition: Very good.
Keywords: Gunsights, Rifle Scopes, Equipment Identification, Price Guide, Scope Attachments, Reference Works, Christy, Wittek-Vaver, Ballard Firearms, Colt, Milton Farrow, Mossberg, Sharps, Spencer, Winchester, Smith and Wesson, Telescopic
ISBN: 9780896896987
[Book #79932]
Price: $500.00