Then age and eyes start catching up with you.īut by the mid-1950s things started to change and companies now making firearms, pretty much drilled and tapped for the models they made. I for one always liked the peep sight for hunting. And men that were used to using the open sites had a hard time adjusting. One of the drawbacks to a hunting scope was you were not able to pick up game quickly, especially at the higher powers. The 22 scope would take even longer to gain a significant following. They could flip the hunting scope out of the way and use the open sights. This is why a lot of men installed side mounts. I think a lot of men were still into the traditional open sites or peep sight mentality and it was a hard idea to get across about using hunting scopes and adapting to that idea in hunting. The hunting scopes were starting to become popular.
While a few gun companies held off and didn’t start drilling and tapping all of their models until the mid-1950’s and some a few years later. This would ruin the value of many good guns from that period. These types of mounts would be very popular but would require drilling the side of the receiver. The William sight company, Pachmayr Company, Echo Company and others including Weaver scopes made side mounts. The Weaver company would start to make scope mounts at this time and other scope mount companies would produce many different styles of mounts. Remington Arms would start drilling the new model 722 and 721 in 1948. Some of the companies in the late 40s started to see the benefits of mounting a rifle scope and started to drill and tap their rifles for them. This was a time of transition and in the gun world the gun scope was starting to arrive on the scene. The concept of adding a modern style scope would follow a short time later. Right after World War II the firearms companies started into mass-producing high-quality firearms for the general public. The 1950’s would bring in a whole new concept to the shooting and hunting world. Hunting scopes, target scopes, and the 22 scopes. They were just a nice compliment to any classic firearms they were installed on. I would have installed many of these great scopes while gunsmithing in Northeast Pennsylvania. The Vintage Leupold scopes and Redfield scopes of the 1970’s and 80’s were my favorite hunting and target scopes of that era.
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