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That pistol looks like it was built for NRA Bullseye pistol. It's common for bullseye shooters to move the Bomar rear sight back like that to lengthen the sight radius.

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Ted

I remember hearing tales from my dad about Clark's tiger tooth stippling. Is this gun from Clark? Supposedly, the old bullseye shooters knew it was a good match when your hand was bleeding at the end.

Lester

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Lester Wang

I thought the same thing. Interesting that they used a ramp front sight.
Thanks for sharing.

Dave Sams told me the exact same thing about Clark's bullseye guns when I was at his shop four days ago. The subject came up as I watched Dave handhecker a Caspian front strap 20 LPI for a bullseye gun.

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Sic Semper Tyrannis

That one brings back some memories. That is not Tiger Tooth Stippling. Looks like a Bo Mar Front sight that they used to use back then. It had to be high to work with the Bo Mar Rear in the original dovetail. My guess is that it's a Bullseye Gun from about 30 years ago.
Smith's have come a long way since then!

Dave,

Do you have pictures of Tiger tooth stippling or shark tooth?

Lester

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Lester Wang

You all have me wondering now about the history of the gun. All I did was take it out of the box and then snap some quick pics. I will take it down and see if there are any other clues anywhere on the gun. The customer picked it up in a shop for a very good price because the work on the gun must have turned off most of the other people that would have bought it otherwise. Thanks for the history lesson! I was not involved with any competition back then. I would have been shooting on weekends and chasing girls "cruising" in my '65 GTO
I will take a closer look and see if there are any marks or indications of who might have done the work.

Jess

I don't have pics of Clark's Tiger Tooth stippling, but as I recall, it was readily distinguished from regular stippling...after you've seen it.

If I remember right, each "stipple" looked like it was made by taking the punch and striking up a sharp burr.
The "stipples" or "teeth" were spaced a lot farther apart than in the stippling we are used to seeing. There might only be approx 10 teeth across the frontstrap.

I am sorry to say I was in diapers. I love old BE pistols.

More information please.

Lester

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Jess

Tiger tooth stippling really does look like its' description, and "Barry in IN" is right on with his description; it was sharp enough to draw blood during extended firing. The first time I saw one, I thought to myself, "this ain't the gun for me".

These aren't very good pictures, but perhaps you can blow them up in your image software:

http://gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?item=50540723

http://gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=50887450

These auctions have Clark guns that have the TT stippling on them.

I wonder if that "stippling" isn't done with a pneumatic impact hammer? I've never seen the result of impact hammer work, but only heard of it.

ed

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