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All I can find online are a handful of scopes marked as such, does anyone have more information? I have a 1935 proofed rifle with another scope with bases marked to him. I’m wondering if they specialized in optics mounting as I’ve yet to see a gun marked?

I don't really see much on puskaműves és fegyvermester József Seifert, less he looks to have started in Vienna(Wien) during the rein of the Austro-Hungarian Empired and later moved to Levice and Bratislava, Slovakia.

I will make some contacts & see what can be unearthed. Maybe Jani has a bit of info?


Serbus,

Raimey
rse

Thank you Raimey, I had a feeling you would know something on him, even having the correct first name can be of use now. The optic mounting is unusual, it’s both similar to a typical SEM, but also quite different, showing some Czech influence IMO on the rear mount. Regards,
Clay

Also of interest, of the Seifert marked optics mountings I have been able to locate, all three are fundamentally quite different.

If you could post fotos of yours or links to the others, someone may be able to point out the platform. I would venture a guess since Fegyvermester József Seifert started in Vienna, that many of his scope mounts would be those of Vienna or similar.

Czech & Slovakian are both difficult to search due to their sentence structures.

Speaking of languages, our local Cuban Restaurant owners both speak & can translate Russian & Bulgarian, and possibly a few other Slavic based languages similar to Russian. I think the couple met in translation school or on the job. Wanting my kids to take note and possibly learn something I pressed him in his native tongue of Spanish as to why & he kindly replied in English in order for my Boys to fully understand. But in Communist Cuba, the government chooses your occupation; therefore, your education. And since the Bulgarians, which are and odd lot in language & other things, invested heavily in Communist Cuba. In the event you chosen to be an Engineer in Cuba, you were shipped off to Bulgarian to Engineering School.

Our Cuban friend did give that the 2nd day on the raft ride from Cuba to Florida was a bit rough, and may have been similar to Castro's boat ride from the Yucatan???? Both a story for another day.


Serbus,

Raimey
rse

Is the mount anything similar to this Springer Kombo in 16 - 6,5X70R that I just acquired and is being shipped from Alaska?






On these flip-up sights, what does the »100-150<«exactly mean?

Serbus,

Raimey
rse

It means that the first rear sight blade is calibrated for the cartridge's GEE (you do know the meaning of GEE, right?), which is about 125-130 metres. Hence the shot would hit point blank at this distance, and lower at a shorter or longer distance. But between 100 and 150 metres, the bullet will still hit within the desired 4 cms of the point of aim or below.

The second flip-up sight also shows you that the trajectory parable is quite steep (the typical bullet was a 7,6 or 7,7 grams Teilmantelflachkopfgeschoss).

PS: Those knowledgeable in Austro-Hungarian arms lore will wonder whence my apparent certainty about the measurement unit cometh, since Austro-Hungarian *military* arms were calibrated in "Schritte" (paces), like the Russians (arshin, which is longer), and not in metres. Well, simple: it is merely a conjecture. For civilian use, the metrical system was introduced already in 1876. And the first blade (there is no fixed base step here) usually would be calibrated at the GEE.The GEE is farther away with this cartridge, than a measure of 100 to 150 paces.

Regards,
Carcano

You are most correct about the »paces« dimension.

So, I would need to aim @ a target that was at least 8cm in size between those pacing distances?

Serbus,

Raimey
rse

I would guess the »Gee« to be that Indian Butter concoction, or his that »Ghee« ?


Serbus,

Raimey
rse