French 75 Sight

A week ago I posted my model of the French 75 gun. In the write-up I mentioned that most of the photos of the gun that I found were lacking the sight so I left it out of the model. Then I found a YouTube video about Matthew Switlik and his 30-year effort to own the gun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDz0uW2jex0&t=983s. In it there’s quite a lot of discussion of the sight. He also mentions drawings of the 1901 sight that I found on the internet.

 The sight (site in French), made mostly in brass, incorporated collimator optics, which are still in use today in some gun sights. The sight was mounted on the left end of the gun’s trunnion, the pivot point for the barrel assembly, and had its own small shield to protect the gunner.

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