A few years ago, I bought some used 8mm Mauser barrels, mostly yc K98 and a few yugo, from Numrich while they still had them advertised in good to excellent condition, taking a chance that some were at least in decent condition, plus to get some random usable K98 sight parts off of them … as I expected, what I got was about half ok, half junk
, but there were some nice WaA-marked pieces in the bunch.I wound up using a WaA280 rear sight base from one of those barrels to replace/correct the butcherjob the local mauser smith did on the rear sight base of the replacement barrel he put on a sportered duv41 I'd bought with its handguard sleeve ground off (he bragged up what he had as 'factory new' Sauer barrels), but in reality what I got was no more than a take-off yc barrel, yugo stamps and all. It's in decent shape, but no friggin' way is it a new barrel. He even left the yugo front sight base on it, and left it off-center as well. Hadda korrekt it all myself
. I'll post those pics when I find them again.Anyhow, collected whatever random WaA280 rear sight parts I found on the Numrich barrels, put them all together as one rear sight assembly, and looky what I got!
I swear I did not notice this until tonight … matching rail&slide serial#4312 WaA280 parts
… only non-matching part is the ramp, but the whole assembly fits nice&straight on that WaA280 sight base .. can't wait to see how the rebarreled duv41 does at the range with the 'new' sights in place …280#1.1.jpg [ 55.31 KiB | Viewed 5345 times ]
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The black ring on the target is 8".