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Online Rick Wiltshire

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What are these - Sight Brackets???
« on: June 07, 2007, 08:35:00 PM »
A recently purchased a project recurve to fix (you can see the holes in the riser) and clean up.  It has these brackets on the front of the riser.  I assume they are for a sight, but the tangs point down and not up.  Any help will be appreciated.

Also, should I take them off before refinishing, or leave them on, or take them off and then replace after I have finished the bow?

Thanks.

 
 
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Re: What are these - Sight Brackets???
« Reply #1 on: June 07, 2007, 11:31:00 PM »
Pretty interesting, Rick, but I have no idea.  Are you going to Compton?  Perhaps someone there would know.
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Re: What are these - Sight Brackets???
« Reply #2 on: June 07, 2007, 11:37:00 PM »
Are they to hold a quiver or a bowfishing rig??
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Re: What are these - Sight Brackets???
« Reply #3 on: June 08, 2007, 05:49:00 AM »
I vote for the quiver too
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Re: What are these - Sight Brackets???
« Reply #4 on: June 08, 2007, 06:25:00 AM »
No idea, but if they come off without getting damaged I would take them off before you refinish and possibly replace them afterwards. It looks like they are squeezed on so there is likely some wood compression that you will need to repair.
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Re: What are these - Sight Brackets???
« Reply #5 on: June 08, 2007, 10:35:00 AM »
Given their location I would say it was for a bow sight.

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Re: What are these - Sight Brackets???
« Reply #6 on: June 08, 2007, 10:47:00 AM »
Intresting.... Weere's Charlie or Van
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Re: What are these - Sight Brackets???
« Reply #7 on: June 08, 2007, 11:26:00 AM »
Hey guys I used to make tons of those when I worked for Saunders archery. They're self adhesive sight mounting brackets. They're stamped out of copper so they would bend to fit the riser and were designed to allow the sight to be removed for travel or replaced if broken.
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Re: What are these - Sight Brackets???
« Reply #8 on: June 08, 2007, 11:29:00 AM »
By the way it looks like they were put on upside down. You can take them off and remove the glue residue with wd40.
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Re: What are these - Sight Brackets???
« Reply #9 on: June 08, 2007, 11:37:00 AM »
Budog56 Saunders archery is located in Columbus NE you anywhere close? They also still make outsterts for the small diameter pultruded carbon arrows if anyone is looking for some.
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Re: What are these - Sight Brackets???
« Reply #10 on: June 08, 2007, 04:03:00 PM »
Thanks guys.  BenBow I think you are exactly right.  They came off very easy and were applied with a sort of double sided tape and are very malleable.  I think that I will hang on to them but not put them back on when I have finished the bow.  Rick
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Re: What are these - Sight Brackets???
« Reply #11 on: June 08, 2007, 07:54:00 PM »
Is that a Ben Pearson Stallion?

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Re: What are these - Sight Brackets???
« Reply #12 on: June 08, 2007, 08:38:00 PM »
Killdeer,

It is Pearson Colt.

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Re: What are these - Sight Brackets???
« Reply #13 on: June 08, 2007, 09:36:00 PM »
Ben Bow is correct. I just last week saw a bow complete with the sights on it.
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Re: What are these - Sight Brackets???
« Reply #14 on: June 08, 2007, 10:14:00 PM »
If anyone has the sights that go with the brackets lying around that they do not want please let me know.  Rick
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Re: What are these - Sight Brackets???
« Reply #15 on: June 09, 2007, 01:42:00 PM »
You might try contacting Saunders archery and see if they might have any laying around. Just do a search for saunders archery
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