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French Sextant
From: Doug Royer
Date: 2004 Aug 4, 16:30 -0700
From: Doug Royer
Date: 2004 Aug 4, 16:30 -0700
Joel, I was browsing through stuff on e-bay today and as usual stopped off at your store to check it out. What really caught my eye(I'm not in the market for a sextant.Just like to look)was the Poulin model 808 sextant you have listed. That is an interesting sextant.I've not seen many that are configured as that one. I wonder why the sextant manufactures changed the design from being able to rest the sextant with the handle faceing up.Makes more sense to me to have them this way as one can grab the handle 1st and not the frame? Was the 8 x 30 scope original?That's a high power scope on such an instrument.
