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Need help identifying a folding rear sight removed from a 99 chambered in 284 either an F or M no barrel boss the rifle had double diamond checkering that should pinpoint year.

No Markings on the sight




Thanks Chris

Calling Lightfoot. Earth to Lightfoot....

I believe that is a Lyman 16 Folding Leaf Sight.

According to Stroebel, there are three heights:
16A - 0.400 elevates to 0.500
16B - 0.345 elevates to 0.445
16C - 0.500 elevates to 0.600

I believe the 16B is the correct size for a Model 99.

The similar Marbles 69 folding sight has only one screw for the slide adjustment.

The Lyman 16 sights I see have a white triangle on the elevator/slide this one has a diamond ?

Stroebel says white triangle, but I have a 16B I bought new a few years ago, and it has a diamond. So perhaps Lyman changed it at some point or made both styles.

Well, Savage being Savage, they used every fold down sight made for a period there. I have no idea who made the unmarked sight. Some have a Marbles and others the Lyman, and then the unmarked one. I suspect they had a contract to make the unmarked ones and then gave up on it and just bought off-the-shelf stock.

Numrich sold the unmarked sight years back but they ran out quick. I bought a bunch of them.

The 284's had a thicker barrel and didn't have the sight boss

I agree with Jaaack, Lyma 14. The Double Diamond Fs and DLs date to 1964. Would have left the factory with the long fold-down sight, not the sight in your pic. Attached are 2 pics, one on a 1980 99-375, the other one marked LYMAN on the back is a pic I had from ebay.

So who has a 1964 284 that can check what sight it has on it?
Roy? Hanco?

I have pics of 3 284s: 2 99Fs, one with cut checking 1073942, the other double-diamond 1075228, both with the long fold-down. 1 pic of a DL dbl-diamond, 1084820, has long fold-down.

My 64 284 has long sight, folds down, has single white line down the middle, no markings that i can see, all of my other dls have same sight.

1964 284 DL and F both have same sight.

...and uses a thin elevator with a #2 stamped on it.