Old Gunsights & Rifle Scopes; Identification & Price Guide

Stroebel, Nick

ISBN 10: 0896896986 / ISBN 13: 9780896896987

Published by Gun Digest Books (an Imprint of F & W Media Inc.), Iola, WI, 2008

About this Item

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.

Seller Inventory # 79932

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Old Gunsights & Rifle Scopes; Identification & Price Guide
• Publisher: Gun Digest Books (an Imprint of F & W Media Inc.), Iola, WI
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0896896986
• ISBN 13: 9780896896987
• Binding: Wraps
• Edition: Presumed First Edition, First printing.
• Condition: Very good

About this title

Synopsis

The firearms world is full of highly collectible items that share in the rich history that is part of the legends and culture of the world.Old Gunsights and Rifle Scopes is the only book that covers the areas of collectible gun sights and rifle scopes, a vital element of collecting ad the nostalgia that makes up this important field.