1905 sights on a revolver? Why?

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  • PhillipM
    Very Senior Member - OFC
    • Aug 2009
    • 5937

    #1

    1905 sights on a revolver? Why?



    A friend of mine is having way too much fun at the JM Davis firearms museum in Claremore, OK. 14,000 guns, supposed to be the largest private collection on the planet.

    Any thoughts on the revolver?
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    Phillip McGregor (OFC)
    "I am neither a fire arms nor a ballistics expert, but I was a combat infantry officer in the Great War, and I absolutely know that the bullet from an infantry rifle has to be able to shoot through things." General Douglas MacArthur
  • emmagee1917
    Senior Member
    • Sep 2009
    • 1492

    #2
    For the same reason I sometimes go to Long John Silvers , I guess .
    Just for the halibut .
    Chris

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    • ElWoodman
      Member
      • Jun 2014
      • 85

      #3
      Reminds me of the FBI's deep love for a 2 3/4" S&W model 19 .357. As one who understands the definition and concept of "sight radius", I have long found it amusing when "some peoples' kids" want a snubbie with adjustable sights. My general purpose revolver is a 3" S&W M13, that prints dead on at 15 yds....but maybe with rifle sights, my 15 yd grouping would be 1/2 inch, instead of 1.75 inches!

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      • John Beard
        Senior Member
        • Aug 2009
        • 2275

        #4
        Perhaps he uses the sights for aiming at how far he can chunk it, since with the sawed off barrel in .22 caliber, it won't shoot very far.

        J.B.

        p.s.,

        You need to come to Birmingham again sometime. Them ribs is smokin'!

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        • chuckindenver
          Senior Member
          • Sep 2009
          • 3005

          #5
          cuz he could..
          if it aint broke...fix it till it finally is.

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          • Johnny P
            Senior Member
            • Aug 2009
            • 6258

            #6
            It has been a while since I was at the Davis Museum, but one entire wall was nothing but cheap pistols and revolvers confiscated and donated by the Tulsa Police Department. Adds numbers, but not much interest.

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            • Rick the Librarian
              Super Moderator
              • Aug 2009
              • 6700

              #7
              Because he had WAYYYY too much time of his hands!! LOL!
              "We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst."
              --C.S. Lewis

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              • joem
                Senior Member, Deceased
                • Aug 2009
                • 11835

                #8
                Real shame to do that.

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