Author Topic: P I Spence Tang Peep Sight  (Read 932 times)

Offline MJBush

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P I Spence Tang Peep Sight
« on: November 30, 2024, 09:29:17 PM »
P I Spence tang peep sight.
$65.00, free shipping. USPS Money Order or personal check(item ships when check clears)


Offline Bob Roller

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Re: P I Spence Tang Peep Sight
« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2024, 09:47:00 PM »
I knew the man  that made this sight and he made locks and triggers and he was past 90 in 1954.He gave me a big sheet of annealed 1075 spring steel.This is a rare item.He lived in Marietta Ohio.

Bob Roller

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Re: P I Spence Tang Peep Sight
« Reply #2 on: November 30, 2024, 09:51:33 PM »
Hi Bob,
Log Cabin has them on their Website currently $ 85.00 plus tax and shipping.
Michael

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Re: P I Spence Tang Peep Sight
« Reply #3 on: November 30, 2024, 10:00:32 PM »
I’ll take the sight I sent you a PM  Dan

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Re: P I Spence Tang Peep Sight
« Reply #4 on: November 30, 2024, 11:11:20 PM »
Hi,
Sight is sold pending funds.
Michael

Offline smokinbuck

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Re: P I Spence Tang Peep Sight
« Reply #5 on: December 01, 2024, 08:17:26 PM »
Just a question, is this sight marked? PI normally put his name on his items.
Mark

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Re: P I Spence Tang Peep Sight
« Reply #6 on: December 01, 2024, 09:28:38 PM »
Hi,
No marking. I bought this from Log Cabin maybe five years ago.
Michael

Offline Bob Roller

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Re: P I Spence Tang Peep Sight
« Reply #7 on: December 01, 2024, 09:49:08 PM »
Hi Bob,
Log Cabin has them on their Website currently $ 85.00 plus tax and shipping.
Michael
Who is now making these sights? Certainly not Mr.Spence.He may have been the first to offer a new cap lock and set triggers to the builders after WW2.I think Chet Shoults offered the first new and usable flintlock as a market item in the mid 1950's and ot was cloned by a man whose name was Cochran who also made a left hand version.The Shoults lock mechanism was presented as the work of a machinist but it was really ALL good quality casings and only the screws were not castings.Chet made the mould masters and the castings were good and no complaints.I tried to make a flintlock using cast frizzens/pan/cock and top jaw but they were malleable iron and feeble sparks resulted but at that time I was working on imported cars and worn out Duesenbergs. MG-Morris-Jaguar and Riley so guns were not a contributor to our well being.
Bob Roller