Tang sight for 63 ?
Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 12:15 pm
I have a Shiloh Sharps 1863 Farmingdale .54 cal, Ser# 12XX made in 1978 and would like to know if anyone has mounted a Marbles Tang Peep Sight on this model. If so did the existing tang holes work or did you have to tap the tang.
Marbles list a # 009838 and a 009843 NEW that fit a 1874 and I assume would fit the 63 but they do not say if it fits the 1863 or if any holes would have to be tapped. MVA list a tang sight at $225.00, about twice the cost of a Marbles. I have a MVA Soule sight and they are great sights but I also have several Marbles on Winchester Low Walls and Browning High Walls and they also are good sights with windage.
In Mike Venturino's book Shooting Buffalo Rifles of the Old West on page 238 he shows a original Marbles tang sight that was used with lever action Winchesters mounted on his Shiloh Sharps 1874 but does not say what model Winchester or if the tang had to be tapped.
Frank Costa
Marbles list a # 009838 and a 009843 NEW that fit a 1874 and I assume would fit the 63 but they do not say if it fits the 1863 or if any holes would have to be tapped. MVA list a tang sight at $225.00, about twice the cost of a Marbles. I have a MVA Soule sight and they are great sights but I also have several Marbles on Winchester Low Walls and Browning High Walls and they also are good sights with windage.
In Mike Venturino's book Shooting Buffalo Rifles of the Old West on page 238 he shows a original Marbles tang sight that was used with lever action Winchesters mounted on his Shiloh Sharps 1874 but does not say what model Winchester or if the tang had to be tapped.
Frank Costa