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butlersrangers KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 6330 Location: Michigan Bi-Peninsular&Proud Joined: Oct 7^th, 2009	Re: Target Shooting Sight Micrometers Reply #15 - Apr 30^th, 2020 at 9:11pm	Print Post
	Whelen's text regarding sight-micrometers:


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butlersrangers KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 6330 Location: Michigan Bi-Peninsular&Proud Joined: Oct 7^th, 2009	Re: Target Shooting Sight Micrometers Reply #16 - Apr 30^th, 2020 at 9:51pm	Print Post
	Whelen pointed out a further advantage of sight-micrometers. He also gave Dr. Hudson's volatile recipe for dirty soldiers, like Culpeper, who 'blacken' their sights.


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Culpeper KCA Forum Member Offline Posts: 904 Location: Right Coast of Africa Joined: Mar 30^th, 2005	Re: Target Shooting Sight Micrometers Reply #17 - May 1^st, 2020 at 9:16am	Print Post
	Here is a source for Suggestions to Military Riflemen and other classics (You need to *Login* to view media files and links)
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HeyJoe KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 43 Location: Roanoke VA Joined: Aug 29^th, 2017 Gender:	Re: Target Shooting Sight Micrometers Reply #18 - May 1^st, 2020 at 12:53pm	Print Post
	O'Hare also offered parts to add to '03 windage adjustment screw and wheel that give 1 MOA detent clicks. Cost was $2.00. That would be nice to have


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Culpeper KCA Forum Member Offline Posts: 904 Location: Right Coast of Africa Joined: Mar 30^th, 2005	Re: Target Shooting Sight Micrometers Reply #19 - May 2^nd, 2020 at 5:47am	Print Post
	I saw this over on CMP. (You need to *Login* to view media files and links)

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Cat Man KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 102 Joined: Jan 20^th, 2015 Gender:	Re: Target Shooting Sight Micrometers Reply #20 - May 2^nd, 2020 at 2:18pm	Print Post
	Culpeper wrote on Apr 30^th, 2020 at 8:12pm: There ya go confusin' everyone with facts! Fer Shame. naughty naughty. It was the other guy! Really! HE needed to blacken my rifle. Not I needed to blacken my rifle. Well , I just had to let him do it for me since I was an innocent and pure and modest first time CP shooter. And... And.. Anyone buying this? > crickets chirping < Hello? Anybody there? The "Other Guy" just ordered a fresh can of Calcium Carbide. Just about ran out from being asked by other vintage shooters to blacken their sights on their vintage rifles. Helping target shooters new and old for 50 years! Our junior shooters firing fancy scoped AR15's tell me my shooting kit is a Vintage Collectible. Ya that's a younger me at Camp Perry in 1974.


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Cat Man KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 102 Joined: Jan 20^th, 2015 Gender:	Re: Target Shooting Sight Micrometers Reply #21 - May 2^nd, 2020 at 2:28pm	Print Post
	Culpeper wrote on May 2^nd, 2020 at 5:47am: I saw this over on CMP. (You need to *Login* to view media files and links) I guess the days of picking them out of the Miscellaneous junk box at a gun show for $5 are over


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Culpeper KCA Forum Member Offline Posts: 904 Location: Right Coast of Africa Joined: Mar 30^th, 2005	Re: Target Shooting Sight Micrometers Reply #22 - May 2^nd, 2020 at 5:05pm	Print Post
	Cat Man wrote on May 2^nd, 2020 at 2:18pm: The "Other Guy" just ordered a fresh can of Calcium Carbide. Just about ran out from being asked by other vintage shooters to blacken their sights on their vintage rifles. Helping target shooters new and old for 50 years! Our junior shooters firing fancy scoped AR15's tell me my shooting kit is a Vintage Collectible. Ya that's a younger me at Camp Perry in 1974. Hey, hey, hey! I wasn't naming names here. You should have said something I have a whole can of calcium carbide from Lehmans just waiting to be put in water. However being stuck in Africa for next couple of months precludes me from using any of it. And in case I didn't say it too often or at all thank you for helping out a new guy at Camp Perry. Yeah. I agree about cheap things. Everybody, thanks to the internet, is chasing after finite resources of which shooting items are part. So is there any way to make a D2 street legal? I want to get a used one for grocery shopping. Just short trips back on forth.

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butlersrangers KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 6330 Location: Michigan Bi-Peninsular&Proud Joined: Oct 7^th, 2009	Re: Target Shooting Sight Micrometers Reply #23 - May 2^nd, 2020 at 6:09pm	Print Post
	My parents were from a Northern Michigan Mining Town. My Grand-fathers were Copper Miners. Although, Battery Lamps had been in use since the 1930's, the local hardware stores in the Keweenaw Peninsula still had old inventory Miner's Lamps into the 1960's. I've had this stuff for a long time. My 'Grampa' showed me how to check the 'drip' from the top water tank and clean the 'jet' with a wire. Once assembled with carbide in the bottom tank and the water valve 'ON', you could smell the acetylene gas start. Cup your hand over the reflector and trap some gas. Quickly swipe the meaty part of your palm across the 'flint-wheel' and 'POP' .... blinding light! Regulate the flame with the water flow valve. BTW - If you don't use one of these every day, the working parts get very corroded from the caustic slurry in the bottom tank. It is easy to understand why they went out of fashion in 'shooting kits'. If you want to buy a used one, take off the bottom tank and check the rubber-seal, function of the valve-parts, check for tank cracks and corrosion. The lamp soot is the ultimate sight-blacking!
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