As a card-carrying old person, I can vouch that the classic joke about "hiding your own Easter eggs" is regrettably true some days! But sometimes, forgotten tidbits lead to interesting things.
After seeing a friend's similar setup, I recently bought this Anschutz adapter (part no. SA-1411 for anyone interested), which mates 11mm grooves to old Redfield sights made for firearm receiver side rails. So the beautiful "Olympic" diopter hiding in my stash now magically fits my Weihrauchs. The eyepiece is a Merit adjustable iris:
It did require a front sight riser for the elevation settings to work out, though. So here's the Weihrauch barrel...with a Walther riser I'd also forgotten...and an Anschutz front tunnel sight. The latter is much more versatile than HW's tunnel with its small selection of inserts.
These acrylic Anschutz sight inserts (right), and the slotted flexing sleeve that they fit into (lower left) were acquired separately, years apart, and I only recently realized that they go together! The normal sleeve for clamping metal inserts (top left) won't work:
The end result is a setup that works great on this HW 55 CM, allows a very comfortable head's-up hold, and even looks kinda cool to my eye:
(PS: Many thanks to the generous fellow forumite to whom some of these bits will look familiar!
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