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teppler

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I am new to black powder but after researching I run across this scope with mounts for black powder rifles, my question is what is the radius of the mounts as I would like to mount this scope on my Win 67-22 single shot and have been unable to find mounts to fit the contour of my Win and these appear to be very close, any input would be appreciated.
I posted this in another forum not related so I apology
 
welcome aboard but, you're kinda on the wrong forum altogether to be askin' about scopes in general & scopes for ca'tridge guns in particular./

but best of luck to ya & have a merry Christmas.
 
I don't think the scope was invented in 1966 AD maybe King David used one to check out Bethsheeba's pantaloons in 1966 B.C.
I don't use a scope on anything older than I am, but I do soot up my front sight, once in a while.
 
The first experiments directed to give shooters optical aiming aids go back to the early 17th century. For centuries different optical aiming aids and primitive predecessors of telescopic sights were created that had practical or performance limitations.

In 1776 Charles Willson Peale attempted to have a telescope mounted to a rifle as a sighting aid, but without the ability to mount the telescope due to the lens arrangement to set it back from the rifleman's eye, the telescope impacted the rifleman's eye when firing due to recoil. Thus, the attempt was not a success.

The first documented telescopic rifle sight was invented between 1835 and 1840. In a book titled The Improved American Rifle, written in 1844, civil engineer John R. Chapman documented the first telescopic sights made by Morgan James of Utica, New York. Chapman gave James the concepts and some of the design, whereupon they produced the Chapman-James sight. In 1855, William Malcolm of Syracuse, NY began producing his own sight. Malcolm used an original design incorporating achromatic lenses like those used in telescopes, and improved the windage and elevation adjustments. They were between three and twenty magnification (possibly more). Malcolm's and those made by L. M. Amidon of Vermont were the standard during the Civil War.

Still other telescopic rifle sights of the same period were the Davidson and the Parker Hale. The Colonel Davidson sight saw limited usage in your recent war between the states, and was to be found on a number of Whitworth rifles. These rifles, with their unusual hexagonal bore, were used against artillery and senior officers, and was probably the one used to kill General John Sedgwick of the Union forces at Spotsylvania courthouse in 1864.
 
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