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Just bought this rifle in 35. Doesn't have the front hood? I usually like.my stuff to be original. Is the hood hindering and that's why some remove it? Makes low light shooting harder? Anywho... I'd like to have one for it regardless if installed or not. Were would I find one of these?
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Whoever was handling it previously might have snagged it off without knowing. It is supposed to stop any possible reflections/glare off the standard front sight, I think. I have a fibre-optic type front sight so the hood stays off.
Maybe Brownells have something?
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Do a google search. I think you'll find one pretty fast. I don't like hoods on my front sights, however... If the light from the sun is on one side or another it effects the sight picture enough to change POI as I recall. I don't worry too much about this issue.
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Thanks. Does the hood make the sight harder to see as the sun goes down?
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Right. Even taking the hood off and adding a fiber optic you're not going to make it to the end of legal time in GA. Any decent scope will beat it.
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If it’s an original SC from back in the 40s or 50s timeframe with the long tapered front ramp it takes the round topped “Huntsman” hood. The newer ones from the 80s used the new style “widescan” hood and will have a shorter ramp. They aren’t interchangeable as the have a different shaped detent that snaps into the grooves machined in the ramps. The newer style are a dime a dozen, the old style are quite rare.
For you guys using fiber optic fronts and want to use a hood to protect it but not have the fiber shaded. Take a Dremel with a sanding drum and cut a saddle through the center of the hood perpendicular to the axis of the bore. This will leave a hole for light to get to the fiber tube so it “illuminates” but will offer some protection to the fragile insert. Or you may be able to source one of the already spotted hoods that came on the orange sighted M60s and other 22s, they used the same ramps as the centerfire leverguns.
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Right. Even taking the hood off and adding a fiber optic you're not going to make it to the end of legal time in GA. Any decent scope will beat it. That's kinda what I had assumed about using it with irons. How much more time or ability to you feel the fiber optic sights give you?
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Cutting a slot in the hood is a good idea Kid
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Right. Even taking the hood off and adding a fiber optic you're not going to make it to the end of legal time in GA. Any decent scope will beat it. That's kinda what I had assumed about using it with irons. How much more time or ability to you feel the fiber optic sights give you? I've been using an aperture rear combined with a green fiber optic front for years. If I can still see the deer with my naked eye I can kill it. A good scope maybe gives me 10-15b more minutes. Maybe.
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A few years ago I became pretty well studied on the older Marlins. I'm not sure but I don't think the SC versions ever came from the factory with a front sight hood. The front sight didn't have the grooves in it. Hoods didn't come along until later in the 336's life. Rick
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A few years ago I became pretty well studied on the older Marlins. I'm not sure but I don't think the SC versions ever came from the factory with a front sight hood. The front sight didn't have the grooves in it. Hoods didn't come along until later in the 336's life. Rick I don't know about that , I have 2 sc's and both front sights are grooved for a hood. One from 53 and one from 55. The one from 55 came with a hood I believe. I took it off and put it in a drawer somewhere.
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Had a friend who picked up a Model 70 that was missing the front sight hood and went out of his way to find one. Second year hunting with it, they finished up a deer drive and he realized that he lost the sight hood. Said the heck with it after that.
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My 45-70 Marlin is a real light version. The front sight hood flies off sometimes on high power loads. I gave up on keeping it on.
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Cutting a slot in the hood is a good idea Kid Yep, apparently Marlin thought so also when they put a hi-vis front sight on their Camp 9 Carbine.
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A few years ago I became pretty well studied on the older Marlins. I'm not sure but I don't think the SC versions ever came from the factory with a front sight hood. The front sight didn't have the grooves in it. Hoods didn't come along until later in the 336's life. Rick I have my fathers 336sc, I think a 1952 vintage that he bought about the time I was in the 2nd grade. It came with and still has the original sight hood.
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Look on ebay, they occasionally show up. The older round top hoods will go for much, much more than the newer flat top models.
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