Show your old time archery knowledge; what is this?

[Hardcorehunter]

 

[tlambert]

Looks like a lighted sight, but not sure

 

[SEIowaDeerslayer]

Looks like a lighted sight, but not sure

X2.

 

[flugge]

fiber optic sight? with yardage calculator? :drink2:

 

[Hardcorehunter]

fiber optic sight? with yardage calculator? :drink2:

tell me more

 

[Liv4Rut]

Looks like a clinometer to me with a sight and light attached to it

 

[Hardcorehunter]

ttt:moon::drink2:

 

[Iowabowtech]

Did u find the Dead Sea scrolls next to that thing? Mason ranging sight.

 

[Hardcorehunter]

Did u find the Dead Sea scrolls next to that thing? Mason ranging sight.

Lol...did you get it on your own, or cheat from another one of my post?:drink2:

 

[River1]

I remember that thing......it's one of the first lighted sights isn't it?

The archery industry has had about as many gadgets as the auto industry over the years.

 

[Iowabowtech]

Googled it. Some guy was looking to buy one on a forum. Several year old post. Seemed to carry an 80's vintage perhaps when checking out the company?

 

[Hardcorehunter]

Mason Range finder sight. You would measure how high you were in a tree, unlock the brass knob, slide the setting indicator to the height you were, then the tighten the knob back down. Then, an animal would walk in, you would turn the sight on by pushing the black button you see at the end of the wire in pics, and then, the pins would light up on what distance you were aiming at. If 2 pins lit up, the animal was the yardage between your set pins. It was basically a lighted pendulum sight. $80 25 years ago. Lol. It actually worked quite well. Runs on a 9 volt battery. This was invented before fiber optic light gathering sights were even on the market if I remember right. I saw a guy in bear camp in the mid 80's in Canada use one on his bow successfully on a 400# bear. He talked it up and I had to have one. I killed a lot of deer with it on my bow Bear Whitetail II and Bear Alaskan II.