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Re: Cogswell & Harrison .242 Vickers
      11/01/20 03:39 PM

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I’ve seen plenty of unmolested great conditon rifles drilled for a scope. I die a little inside each time.




I am of the same mind....sacrilege.
- Mike




An alternative view might be that if it allows some old rifles to actually be used, in the field, for hunting, to be fitted with a scope, then that is to the good. All these lovely old rifles filling gun safes, sometimes hundreds for a collector to me is a great shame as well.

Some hunters still can and do use open sights. Many today don't or can't. I dread the day, when I can no longer use open sights. So of my rifles, are ONLY open sights. And would need new examples to be acquired to allow modern optics of some sort to be substituted.

Some old vintage rifles, especially rook rifles and those of smaller calibre, such as .22's of sorts, do really benefit from having modern precise aiming sights available. In my youth I could crawl a hundred metres to shoot a rabbit in the head at 7 metres. Not so today.





Some hunters still can and do use open sights. Many today don't or can't. I dread the day, when I can no longer use open sights. So of my rifles, are ONLY open sights. And would need new examples to be acquired to allow modern optics of some sort to be substituted.

I saw on a recent thread the milling of unobstrusive grooves in the rear sight allowing a dot sight to be installed there. Now while the dot might be a star and not a nice round dot, regulative might not be affected too much. Allowing such rifles as my .450 No.2 NE to still be used. I still can use it, but have been told of severe future eye problems in a decade or two. Not looking forward to it. And will shooting of heavy recoiling firearms be possible after surgery one day? Must do as much as I can in the meantime. One never knows what happens tomorrow anyway.

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