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Forgive my poor explaining! Pic shows the "gib screw" on a Williams sight. Its job is to keep the adjuster arm from wiggling about, and it must be loosened and re-tightened any time you change the elevation setting. On the sights I have, it takes a different size screwdriver bit than the flush...

There's a lot to be said for that...I love those too! A sporting peep is a different animal than a match diopter though...I appreciate the small size, lignt weight, versatile standard-size eyepiece thread, and unobstructed view of the Williams sights. But there's an open market niche for a...

Excellent, thanks! And great point on steps 7 and 8 - that's the key to minimizing cant. A bonus small trick I use is to take out the clamp bar's annoying two little grub screws, and stone their ends a bit - they have a sharp little ring that digs into the aluminum bar. If you smooth this and...

Often pinched the snot out of my kid fingers with my grandmother's Daisy 25 (she got In 1947 to chase squirrels off the bird feeder!), but the first airgun I owned was a Crosman M1 Carbiine with wood stock. My first more serious air rifle was the Benjamin 347 that Santa brought in 1968. The M1...

Sorry to be a downer...but I don't think the linked Anschutz riser will work. It looks to have their standard 11mm grooves on both the male and female side. Webley receiver's grooves of that day were typically at 1/2", or almost 13mm (confirmed on my Tracker, a later descendant). The Osprey...

I had never thought about it that way, but you are surely correct! There were also "S" versions of the models 35 and 50 by the way, with similar 70's squared-up aesthetics.

I collect the classic post-war Diana lineup that lasted until the early 1980's. Most versions of the "adult" models 27, 35, (break-barrels) and 50 (tap-loading underlever) were plain in appearance - almost embarrassingly so! - and went through a lot of detail variations over time, but always had...

It is indeed a lovely, eye candy-filled site. I like to look at it every once in a while just as a humbling reminder of what a bunch of pedestrian garbage my "collection" is, LOL.

That is one of my pet peeves with Williams sights. The adjuster screws, gib screw on the side, and small lock screws on the back each take a different-size screwdriver bit - you need three screwdrivers to adjust it! Even with the target knobs, you still need two, unless you just leave the tiny...

Very true! I do own a variety of Williams sights and the dimensional differences between the various models of different ages is surprising. Looking at the BSF from this angle better illustrates the issue. The FP-GR is really designed for rimfires with a receiver about an inch in diameter and...

A detail of the model 46 that I like is that the receiver tube is significantly slimmer and lighter than similar guns with a sliding sleeve type breech. Its flip-up loading port is, in that sense, a modern alternative to the rotating loading tap seen on many vintage fixed-barrel springer rifles...

The point of my previous post - which you just quoted - was that only YOU can really answer that. Any sight will be good for anything at SOME distance. It's your ability with a given setup that determines what that distance is, and whether it's sufficient to be of practical use to you.

A note for those considering buying a Williams peep sight, and debating between the "high" and "low" models. (For the record: high sight = model "FP-AG," low sight = "FP-GR." The adjuster screws on both sights are available with either flush screw heads, or target knobs, which add "TK" to the...

A lovely pair of classics, thanks for the pics! The Hammerli is a bit outside my wheelhouse, but the Walther rifles are special. They absolutely dominated early post-war air rifle 10-meter competition. Walther's first post-war model was the LG 51 light sporter, whose basic architecture and...

What ammo are you using? I collect low-to-medium power older springers, and lean toward pellets that get out of the gun as quickly as possible - lighter weight, smaller skirt diameter, softer lead. In other words, minimize the effect of recoil movement. No miracles will ensue, mind you - it's...

The guys in the picture said they don't see the problem...

No matter what sight you use, your effective hunting distance is that at which you can consistently hit a target the size of the quarry's kill zone. Most shooters find an aperture sight a great advance over a breech-mounted "notch" sight, but less effective than a scope. It's the hunter's...

I'm a big fan of the old HW 50 series, and its target-shooting cousin the HW 55. Very solid guns that combine HW's smaller 30mm outside diameter receiver with the threaded rear end of their bigger 35mm guns (HW 35, R1, HW 77/97). And fun to collect too, with a zillion variations over the years...

A pair of beautiful classics! Thanks for the fine photos.

HOLY STRIATIONS BATMAN! That is absolutely stunning - nice find, and great work!