My new 'scope' - 12/10/23
I recently picked this up, it's not what I normally look for, my interest in vintage scopes has been the real long ones, so this is quite different for me. A few months ago a friend bought a rifle with one of these mounted on it and asked if I had ever seen one or knew anything about it, which I didn't think I had.... but, several weeks later I realized one was part of a group of Mossberg & Lyman sight parts on eBay that had been showing up in search's off & on for several months as it got relisted. It has nothing to do with Mossberg. My friends was mounted using slightly modified Lyman hardware.
It's simple construction with just front & rear lenses, very low power, about 1½ to 2X.
Note the lack of cross hairs.
Focusing is done by screwing the front in or out and keeping the setting with a locking ring.
I find I can focus it so I get a clear picture of the target, but since it doesn't have crosshairs you need to use the front sight of the gun, and that still is a little blurry, but my eye seem to try and keep it centered.
Here it is compared to some other scopes, as you can see it's quite a bit different from what I normally buy -
Here's my friends, the Lyman stem is drilled out and threaded through to allow putting it in from the front. It looks as if it has been on his rifle a longtime.
I had a damaged Lyman stem that was bent so the threads were unusable and it had already been drilled out a little over size, I was able to straighten it enough to drill & tap it through.
I can't find any information on it, there are no markings on it at all. If my friend hadn't gotten one on a gun I wouldn't have noticed the one on eBay, and if I did, I wouldn't have a clue to how it might mount. I still am not sure if having it in a tang sight is it's intended use. If anyone has any information, please share.
It's simple construction with just front & rear lenses, very low power, about 1½ to 2X.
Note the lack of cross hairs.
Focusing is done by screwing the front in or out and keeping the setting with a locking ring.
I find I can focus it so I get a clear picture of the target, but since it doesn't have crosshairs you need to use the front sight of the gun, and that still is a little blurry, but my eye seem to try and keep it centered.
Here it is compared to some other scopes, as you can see it's quite a bit different from what I normally buy -
Here's my friends, the Lyman stem is drilled out and threaded through to allow putting it in from the front. It looks as if it has been on his rifle a longtime.
I had a damaged Lyman stem that was bent so the threads were unusable and it had already been drilled out a little over size, I was able to straighten it enough to drill & tap it through.
I can't find any information on it, there are no markings on it at all. If my friend hadn't gotten one on a gun I wouldn't have noticed the one on eBay, and if I did, I wouldn't have a clue to how it might mount. I still am not sure if having it in a tang sight is it's intended use. If anyone has any information, please share.