Front sight is a machined-in ramp with a Marbles gold bead. Rear sight is a sculpted buckhorn with elevation ramp and fine adjustment U-notch w/screw, the whole dovetailed to the barrel; there is a square cut in the barrel the same depth as the dovetail under the sight just in front of the elevation ramp. What purpose does it serve?

The front mount for the magazine is a lug machined into the barrel like the front sight- what I thought was a middling firearm is revealing nuances I hadn't noticed before.

Is the butt held to the receiver with a through-bolt?

Thanks.

It is.

I have a 141; these are highly complex pieces of totally machined steel. Takedown too. Expensive to make, which is why they stopped making them in '50 or so.

It needs a new buttstock and forend, or rather I do. It has a semi-crescent buttplate and as usual the LOP is ridiculous for me. I browsed a new stock set from Macon Gun Stocks today, any feedback on them plus-or-minus?

The original wood is dirty, but there is nice figure under it, a shame it won't work for me.

This would be a cool rifle with a 1-4x straight tube scope on it.

There's a good video on youTube showing how to disassemble it. The barrel mentions Pederson patents where the Remington logo, etc., are rolled.

This is the notch I mentioned in my opening post-

The slot is for the original sight used on the model 14. This sight was dovetailed to the barrel and had an elevation adjustment wheel instead of the ladder shown in your photo. The bottom of the adjusting wheel screw fits into the slot.

Bill

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Originally posted by WJW:
The slot is for the original sight used on the model 14. This sight was dovetailed to the barrel and had an elevation adjustment wheel instead of the ladder shown in your photo. The bottom of the adjusting wheel screw fits into the slot.

Bill

-appreciated.

My like mint new 1946 141 has the sight shown on your rifle.