Sheridan C series in brass finish

[Revoman]

The Weaver J series aren't too bad. A nice one is worth something. I bought a clean J4 to mount on a BSA prewar. I can drill and tap a spare trigger block for a dovetail rail. Not always easy to find Weaver 3/4 x 3/8 bullseye knob rings. Don't have those yet.
K series are always desirable. And Marksman series.

The one that I had was a Weaver Marksman 4X. I didn't see any 'Series' mark on it. The turrets were hidden underneath a tear drop style cover that twisted to expose the adjustment screwhead.



mike

 

[KWK]

The one that I had was a Weaver Marksman 4X. I didn't see any 'Series' mark on it. The turrets were hidden underneath a tear drop style cover that twisted to expose the adjustment screwhead.

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mike

K, V, and J series. And any other 1 inch tube blued steel are the most desirable of the vintage Weavers. Marksman doesn't have a letter prefix.
Marksman were actually a lower grade.
Like this one on my 69 Winchester. 3-9x32
Blued steel tube looks so right on a vintage rifle. And I like the long taper of the objective bell.

 

[.20calguy]

The one that I had was a Weaver Marksman 4X. I didn't see any 'Series' mark on it. The turrets were hidden underneath a tear drop style cover that twisted to expose the adjustment screwhead.

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mike

I have a weaver that was given to me. It doesn't have any cross hairs? I guess they're in there somewhere.

 

[Arzrover]

it's a Phillipines 22 caliber bolt action air rifle.. has a pump tube similar to the Sheridan with a brass soldered on barrel.. but at the end of the tube is a fold down wire stirrup and you stand on it and hold the rifle by the butt and pump it up and down vertically.. 100 pumps and it holds air pretty much indefinitely.. good for around 20 full power shots and then top it off where ever you are.. and it shoots hard..way more powerful than a rws Diana 48 in 22.. soft pine will shoot through a 2x4..
so parco is the name for the Phillipines only model.. and Air Rifle Specialist in Elmira New York used to import them, and a 20 gauge/51 caliber CO2 shot gun they were called Farco for the USA model.. the shotgun had a bulk fill tank like a little bit bigger than the 88 CO2 cartridges and I had a adapter to refill it with a 20 lb soda tank.. only difference between that and a CO2 tank is the soda tank has a dip tube so you get liquid CO2..
I know that he's long passed away, this was like 35 years ago..
I also got a ars6 from him, it was a revolver type rifle PCP that you filled with a scuba tank.. it's still available from evinex as a evanix ar6.. but with a foster fill instead of the awful scuba tank hook up..
I really didn't like having to use a scuba tank because I didn't have a dive license and no desire to get one, so I had to find friends who would take it in to fill..
back in those days I had a whebly tempest, Beeman P1, rws Diana 48 and rws Diana 34..
another unusual gun I had was a brocock 522.. it was a snub nose 5 shot revolver, PCP hand pump refillable cartridges for each chamber, they look like a 38 special.. had trouble with o rings and leaking down so I went to industrial supply and bought their best and toughest o rings and rebuilt the cartridges and they would hold air for months and of course if you have left it set you could always put it in the hand pump and top it off..
good old times and great memories..
thank you all for this thread.. brought back good memories..
Mark

Good info, Mark.
Davis Sweisenger is still going though. He's been selling off an apparently large inventory of parts and more rare pieces over on Airgun Ads.
I have one of the Farco pump rifles in 177 cal that had an adapter made so you can use CO2 as well. It's quite accurate and the trigger isn't bad, especially considering the simplicity. Decently powerful , also...

Back to the OP, I've polished with Flitz with great success also, and used Carnauba wax to maintain it. It does need to be renewed occasionally but seems to work well.
Bob

 

[KWK]

I have a weaver that was given to me. It doesn't have any cross hairs? I guess they're in there somewhere.

Vintage Weaver K, V, and J series can be serviced/restored and purchased. They even have K series parallax adjusted for rimfire available.
No, they don't do Hakko. They do offer services for some other vintage domestic scopes.

Vintage Gun Scopes — Weaver Repair Services offered at Vintage Gun Scopes

Due in part to a huge purchase of 8,000 pounds of vintage weaver scope parts and tooling, VGS is now expanding it’s scope services

www.vintagegunscopes.com