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Message started by butlersrangers on Jul 24th, 2018 at 6:22pm

Title: Pacific Gun Sight Co. 1940 virtual tour
Post by butlersrangers on Jul 24th, 2018 at 6:22pm
In the absence of a WABAC Machine, Pacific's Catalog #20 gives some impression of what a well equipped gun-shop, retail/catalog store, and reloading equipment and gun-sight manufacturer looked like circa 1940.

The Pacific Gun Sight Company sold all brands (Lyman, Redfield, Ideal, Marble's, King ... etc.) and had a wide diversity of shooting equipment.

They did gun repair, refinishing and custom work, sold gunsmith and bullet casting supplies. They were big and served a national market.

This company, which originated (at 'home addresses') in San Francisco, during the late 1920's, became larger and more diverse, than I first imagined.

Attached photos and graphics, hopefully are enjoyed by others, as a virtual tour of a neat business that once catered to aficionados of the shooting sports:
Pacific_gunshop-facade_circa_1940.jpg ( 188 KB | 0 Downloads )
pacific_gunsight_Den.jpg ( 138 KB | 0 Downloads )
pacific_gunsight_reloading_Die_machining.jpg ( 402 KB | 0 Downloads )
pacific_gunsight_C-press_assembly.jpg ( 381 KB | 0 Downloads )

Title: Re: Pacific Gun Sight Co. 1940 virtual tour
Post by butlersrangers on Jul 24th, 2018 at 6:28pm
In catalog #20, the featured conversion work was on U.S. Model of 1917 rifles. They were available from the DCM for $7.50.

Moving right along - tour continues:
pacific_C_press.jpg ( 139 KB | 0 Downloads )
barrel_vise_pacific_001.jpg ( 92 KB | 0 Downloads )
pacific_gunsmith-1.jpg ( 225 KB | 0 Downloads )
pacific_gunsmith-2.jpg ( 137 KB | 1 Download )
pacific_1917_conversion_-_ed.jpg ( 43 KB | 0 Downloads )

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