Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Savage Collectors Sights not original? Even Arthur got complaints about that..

From Recreation magazine, July 1901.

"We find that many hunters buy rifles from the trade and have them fitted with special sights, but the dealers are not aware that Lyman makes his sights of various heights for different rifles, and they often put on a sight that is either too high or too low for the rifle ordered.

Changing sights was the same then as it is now...

Note the signature of the last letter writer.