Scope and rifle reunited...

[Mustang]

Years ago I won a wonderful old target rifle at an estate sale of the estate of a WWII vet who had been an avid target shooter. That man's name was James A Norton. The rifle was set up for an old style long tube target scope, but one was not included. It did come with a very nice target sight. Amazingly, I recently saw James Norton's target scope at another online auction. I bid on the scope and won it.

Here is Mr. Norton's obituary.

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/southbendtribune/obituary.aspx?n=james-a-norton&pid=163527379&fhid=8733

Here's the rifle...





And here is the scope..

[Sir Toast]

Love these threads OP. Awesome.

Sorry for Mr. Norton's passing, but cool starry bra.

[Citadelgrad87]

Oh, man, that is awesome.

[pl411]

Very, very cool story. Thank you for sharing.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[hambam105]

Excellent story. Thanks, Mustang.

[1recluse]

That is amazing. I too like to hear stories like this. I am hunter of esoteric stuff and this is an awesome hunt!

[Mustang]

Thanks, guys!

I won the rifle back in June of 2013, not long after Mr. Norton passed. I was looking back through some old posts and discovered a thread that I started on this forum, in which I lamented not having a long tube scope for the rifle.

https://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?t=785919

Here is the recent auction listing for the scope...

https://hibid.com/lot/84043538/lyman-super-target-spot-scope

[Mustang]

Back together again...

The scope arrived yesterday.

Good news: It is in great condition. Bad news: one of the scope mounting blocks is boogered up. I could not mount the scope.

I've already put in a call to Steve Earle for a replacement set.

[stormvet]

Great post, so glad Mr. Norton’s rifle and scope are now both in good hands.

Makes you wonder how many Japanese troops where in his rifle sights when he was a soldier fighting in the Philippians, doubt he missed much.

[CBR_rider]

Have you been eye balling that particular type of scope and found the listing, did you just stumble upon it, or..?

Glad you were able to find it and get it back with the rifle.

[USMCM16A2]

Mustang,


Great story, can you tell us a bit about the rifle? Action, caliber, barrel etc. A2

[Mustang]

Have you been eye balling that particular type of scope and found the listing, did you just stumble upon it, or..?

Glad you were able to find it and get it back with the rifle.

Thanks, CBR

I have been looking for an old long tube scope for my Griffin and Howe bull gun for sometime and spied it at an online auction.

[Mustang]

Mustang,


Great story, can you tell us a bit about the rifle? Action, caliber, barrel etc. A2

Thanks USMC.

The rifle is a Winchester 70, with a Jewell trigger and a 29" Hart barrel.

[Mr. Beretta]

Outstanding post.

Great story.

Thank you for sharing it.

[Mustang]

Thanks, sv. Wish I knew more about Mr. Norton.