Guns, Dogs and Blades QnA

FJRdoc said
I plan on doing on keeping her as a survivor. I will tear her apart and maximize her appearance. I don't want her to look brand new. It's much more fun to keep some of the patina, especially since I plan to take the rifle out in the woods. It's a cool piece of history. She has a built-in pop-up peep sight on the rear of the receiver. The 280 was a flat shooting round. The rear blade sight is 2 leaves. The first leaf is calibrated from 0-500 (meters I suspect.)

280 certainly is/was ballistically a great round in all of its different variations. Rifles and ammo have sure come a long way in this last 100 years or so but in the end they are still doing essentially the exact same thing as they were 100 years ago. Some guys take old iron sights to an absolute art form. There is just something intrinsically beautiful about turn of the century innovation and technology. Congrats on the new addition to your collection.