Navy Rear Sights...

drbuster · 07-09-2006, 03:50 PM

What really bothers me about these Navy rear sight auctions is where will they end up? I try to make note of the two digits on the rear and file them into memory. If one were to "manufacture" a 1917 Navy, the rear sight would seem to me to be the hardest to make in the Waffenfabrik USA shop. I wonder if the members realize how many machining processes are required to make this part? The six inch barrel is easy to acquire and stamping and/or pantographing is a very doable task. I guess all attention is now being drawn to making wide flanged rear toggle pins. That would be more difficult than machining the seat for the wide flange on the rear of the receiver. It may be a good idea for folks like Dwight Gruber or Ron Wood to compile a serial number database of authentic war time Navies just to see if a duplicate serialed piece turns up.

07-09-2006, 03:50 PM	#22
drbuster User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: San Mateo, California Posts: 1,432 Thanks: 2 Thanked 71 Times in 56 Posts	What really bothers me about these Navy rear sight auctions is where will they end up? I try to make note of the two digits on the rear and file them into memory. If one were to "manufacture" a 1917 Navy, the rear sight would seem to me to be the hardest to make in the Waffenfabrik USA shop. I wonder if the members realize how many machining processes are required to make this part? The six inch barrel is easy to acquire and stamping and/or pantographing is a very doable task. I guess all attention is now being drawn to making wide flanged rear toggle pins. That would be more difficult than machining the seat for the wide flange on the rear of the receiver. It may be a good idea for folks like Dwight Gruber or Ron Wood to compile a serial number database of authentic war time Navies just to see if a duplicate serialed piece turns up.