LYMAN SUPER TARGETSPOT INSTRUCTIONS SERIAL NUMBERS
LYMAN SUPER TARGETSPOT INSTRUCTIONS SERIAL NUMBER

The threaded shaft will be hardened and the threaded boss they are threaded into will also be hardened. The best source for this was a cheap set of calipers. The first issue was to source very fine, accurate thread to use for the windage and elevation adjustment. So as you are trying to set elevation, the scope is actually moving up and down as the high and low side of the adjuster is moving the scope. The problem with the rear adjusters for the Shory Tube Malcolm, is the poor quality threads and the tips of the threaded adjusters are not perfectly perpendicular to the threads. The Malcolm scope has a similar set up for the short tube scopes.Д«ut the Long Tube scope on the Sharps rifle is a completely different affair. There is a spring loaded plunger at the 7 oвЂ™clock position that hold the scope firmly up against the two adjusters. There are two threaded adjusters that simply move the scope tube up and down and left to right. The scope itself has no internal adjustments like a modern rifle scope. Unertl type mounts are вЂњexternal adjustingвЂќ. But at over $350, it was just to rich for my pocketbook. There are a couple of folk that advertise on the internet that are making a version of the Unertl mounts. I attempted to buy a set of Unertl mounts but they are difficult to find and very expensive. The threads on the adjustments are very rough and simply not accurate enough for precision work. Zero repeatability and even simply вЂњsighting-inвЂќ is terribly frustrating. Both scopes were ordered through ДЄlthough the optics on these two scopes are superb, the rear mounts are really pretty poor. I ordered two of the reproduction William Malcolm 3/4вЂі scopes that are imported through Leatherwood. Perhaps, the company was in the 7000 range when they began to mark them as USMC Property, and simply added a 1 to their numbering system.As you can read in another article on this web site, I recently became involved in late 1800 rifles and the period correct scopes to go with them. As for the Parson letter verifying the DOM of your 20x scope and your idea about assigning a special block of numbers for the Marine order with a 1949В DOM in the 17000В serial range more significance for me at this time.

LYMAN SUPER TARGETSPOT INSTRUCTIONS SERIAL NUMBERS

The older latches on the box fits nicely with what very little is known at this time where serial numbers and the box latches concerned. I also have an early Targetspot (3 digit serial #) in the wood box where the hooks pivot from the bottom and theВ stud and keeperВ are on the lid. The hooks pivot from the lid and the stud and keeper is on the bottom. Like Clarence mentioned, it might be difficult to find out now that Parson is not around. IвЂ™ve also wondered about how Lyman serially numbered their scopes and IвЂ™m thinking it was by the model. These two scopes are most likely from the same 1949 order, IMO. On a later page, another 20 power Super Tragetspot serial numbered scopeВ 17515 (cited as circa 1949, also) is shown as being USMC Property.

LYMAN SUPER TARGETSPOT INSTRUCTIONS SERIAL NUMBER

For example, a Senich reference citing Gil Parson/De Le Fortrie CollectionВ for a 20 power Super Targetspot scope was furnished by Lyman in 1949 to the USMCвЂ¦and the serial number shown for it is 1752 (IвЂ™mВ thinking that the fifth and last number was cropped from the picture). The Parson letter you have for your вЂњSuper Targetspot, Serial #9741, 20 power, manufactured вЂќ truly has me baffled over these scopes and their serial numbering. When I received the letter I was kind of surprised by the date of manufacture, I assumed the scope was produced a little earlierВ maybe 1946-48. 0007 standard crosswire, date researched 9/20/06. The letter gives the following information:В Super Targetspot, Serial #9741, 20 power, manufactured. I have a Lyman Super Targetspot which I orderedВ a researchВ letter forВ from ParsonвЂ™s in 2006. I have many pre-war Lyman catalogs, but no post-war, so I donвЂ™t know if they were doing the same, but I suspect so. вЂњProbably,вЂќ only because many optical companiesВ began hyping coating services right after the war a вЂ™48 Unertl catalog I have devotes about 10 pages to promoting their coating service for anything opticalвЂ“binoculars, camera lenses, etc. ItвЂ™s easier, however, to distinguish between pre- and post-war scopes of all makes: lens coatings (developed in Germany) became aВ big selling pointВ right after the war, soВ a bluishВ reflection on the lens probably means post-war. Very good question about theВ serial number sequence, and now that Parsons is not around to answer it, itВ may be difficult to find out for sure donвЂ™tВ waste your breathВ asking the folks now running dear theВ old Lyman company! post-war serial numbers in the Targetspot series? I am also curious if anybody has an idea of the break point for pre-war vs. I have always wondered if Lyman manufactured each model of Targetspot with its own serial number sequence, or were they were all numbered in the same sequence?

Lyman super targetspot instructions