I picked up an old Jefferys 404 on a Mauser 98 action which I am busy restoring. It used to have a bolt mounted peep sight,which has long since been lost, leaving just the threads.
If anyone has a detailed picture or drawing that they can let me have I would be obliged, I dug around on the web and could'nt find anything I could use as a reference.

thanks
500

500,

Contact Rusty Marlin on this site, and he can help you out.

The sight that used to be on your 404 was no doubt the Rigby style aperature sight.
Rusty makes reproductions that are faithful in size and dimensions.

I have one on my 500 Jeffery.

Garrett

thanks Garret

I also have one from his first group on my Single Square Bridge 375H&H. Works and looks perfectly appropiate to the gun. He does GOOD work.

This is the sight that Rusty makes, I just finished a 7X57 and used his sight

Would you really want something like that so close to your eye on a big boomer like a .404?

Tex,

When you pull the trigger, the rear sight moves a little more than 0.5 inches forward (with the striker/firing pin assembly).

It's no longer near your eye after firing.

Garrett

Rusty's:



original:

I can't remember his name at the moment, but a writer from the '30's was hunting sheep with his wife and she lost her right eye due to a sight like that. She was shooting a .250-3000 in a Savage '99 at an angle pointing up. It was a tang peep, which is about the same location as a Mauser cocking piece sight

I would not use a sight like that. Given that I have a turbo case of accidentproneness, I could see me losing both eyes from a .22 short with a close peeep.

The good ol' Lyman 48 works as good as ever. And will be more accurate than 99% of the cocking piece sights out there. And folks will chang the spring and firing pin to try to reduce the lock time of the Mauser by .007329 milliseconds, but then hang a hunk-o'-iron on the rear of the cocking piece, doubling the lock time.

I have a question I have always wondered about. For those of you who had a cocking piece sight installed, did you have your gunmaker install a spring-loaded detent to the underside of the bolt shroud? Howe loved the cocking piece sights and he has some detailed drawings in his book showing how he gets the bolt shroud to return to close to the same place each time. Still will not be as accurate as a Lyman 48 or other conventional fixed peep sight, but surely is more than enough accurate for a hunting rifle.

My cocking piece sight by Tom Deluchi does have a spring detent where a piece clicks into a notch to hold the position.

After my 500 Jeffery is stocked, Rusty will add a similar detent onto his sight, for 50 yards and 100 yards (that particular yardage was requested by me, not Rusty).
That way the regulation of the sights, with my chosen ammo, will be right for the new stock.

I doubt the stock will be finished before May or June (2008).

Garrett

Rusty's sight has the ball detent for elevation you just have to cut the notches when you sight in the rifle with the load you use. I believe if you look at the old tang peeps found on some 99's you will find they fold both back AND forward which to me has always been dangerous. My 375 returns to zero fine with no modifications at all to cocking piece. I have been building rifles for over 50 years and can't remember ever speedlocking any gun except a 17 enfield when converting to cock on open. I'm sure there have been many but I have never seen one. Only drawback to the cocking piece peep is it must be set for the load you use, but then a fixed rear on a DGR has to be filed in for a single load.

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Originally posted by Rolland:
This is the sight that Rusty makes, I just finished a 7X57 and used his sight

Man oh man does that look nice. Do you have any more pics of the rifle?

Rusty
I did post some photos on the 25th three or so pages back.