As for most of us, I'm not as young as I was a while back.
Eyesight is certainly one of the issues with getting older. With the newer type "progressive" lenses I've had for a number of years, they allow you to see closeup, middle-ways, and far off. You just have to tilt your head a little bit for perfect vision at a particular distance. It becomes instinctive after a short time.
Unfortunately, for shooting a gun without a scope, they don't work very well. You can focus on the the back sight. You can focus on the front sight. Or, you can focus on the target. But, you just can't focus on all three like you could when you were young and had great eyesight.
I've been doing my annual maintenance on my guns this week. My favorite deer rifle is still my 1969 Winchester Model 94 30-30. It is the last rifle in the gun safe without a scope. So, I decided it was time to upgrade it. I reblued it. I refinished the stock and forearm. It looks like new.
So that I could shoot it, I bought a Weaver 3B side-mount scope bracket today. I also bought a reasonably decent Weaver-mount scope that came with standard Weaver-mount rings.
The 3B scope mount requires special side-mount rings -- at an additional $40! Nowhere does it say this on the Weaver packaging or Weaver website.
I made a ring bracket that should work perfectly -- but now I can't figure out what size screws I need to hold it to the 3B bracket. They are close to ANSI/ASE #10-32 and not Metric M5 x .08 -- but they don't seem to be either.
Anybody know what size these might be?
Here is what the bracket looks like:
The threaded holes are the two closest to the top/middle of the rail, above the one large hole, and two smaller holes that run across the bottom. Those holes match the rifle receiver holes, and I've got screws for them.
If I can't find a match in the next few days, I guess I'll re-tap them for ANSI #12, unless I can get adequate threads for ANSI 10-32.
Thanks,
Ken
