Beaches combination front sight

[marlinman93]

I collect old gun sights, and have looked for a Beaches combination sight with windage for many years. I own several without windage adjustment, but those with windage are extremely rare. This one came up at an auction and I was the lucky winner!

[earlmck]

Now I really like that!

I could use several of those. But if you tell us they are rare, I'm sure they are RARE!

[GunnyMack]

That is elegant but simple, they don't make stuff like that anymore.

[Pat C]

That is a dandy for sure ,very nice design.

[marlinman93]

I have a couple Lyman globe sights that work very similar. They used the same folding wing adjuster, and inside the globe they had a peep or post aperture. Push one down and the other pops up. They shared a pivot screw and were mounted 90 degrees to each other to make one fold flat inside when the other popped up.
When I think about the equipment makers had back when these were made it amazes me! It would be easy with a CNC machine today, but back then the equipment was pretty darn basic and lots of hand work required.

[Bill in Oregon]

I've had several Beach combination sights over the years, from MVA and others, but was unaware of the windage-adjustable version. Cool find, Vall.
According to Buffalo Arms, this sight was patented in 1867.

[marlinman93]

I've had several Beach combination sights over the years, from MVA and others, but was unaware of the windage-adjustable version. Cool find, Vall.
According to Buffalo Arms, this sight was patented in 1867.

I may have given some erroneous info based on the auction description! This is not made by Beaches, but is a Lyman #8 windage combination sight. Had to go to my copy of Tom Rowe's Old American Gun Sights book and saw nothing under Beaches, so looked and found it under Lyman.
I see BACO lists their repro as a Beach, but calls it a repro of the #8, so they're making the same error I did with their repro.

[Ysabel Kid]

Very cool!

[Ray Newman]

Buffalo Arms stocks modern clones of the Beach front sight:

https://www.buffaloarms.com/pedersoli-f ... sa474.html

https://www.buffaloarms.com/beach-combi ... f5375.html

https://www.buffaloarms.com/beach-combi ... f5450.html

https://www.buffaloarms.com/beach-combi ... f6375.html

https://www.buffaloarms.com/beach-combi ... f6375.html

https://www.buffaloarms.com/beach-combi ... f6450.html

[Scott Tschirhart]

I've had several Beach combination sights over the years, from MVA and others, but was unaware of the windage-adjustable version. Cool find, Vall.
According to Buffalo Arms, this sight was patented in 1867.

I had one of those MVA versions on my old Sharps rifle. But I was also unaware that a windage adjustable version existed. This is really neat!