Wally Siebert

[jimbo]

I have just been advised that our old friend Wally Siebert passed away.

Wally is best known as a scope expert, and was the man largely responsible for the higher powered leupold scopes.
Many Aussie shooters will have a scope modified by Wally for higher magnification.

Wally was also a keen benchrest shooter and used to live in Victoria for the summer months and then return to the USA for thewir summer.

A true legend of the shooting sport, Wally will be sadly missed.

[Ackley Improved]

That is sad news. I contacted Wally a couple years back about a rifle chambered in 23/40 from memory. Little BR rifle. It was built by Wally for one of his friends here in Oz. He even sent me a couple old photos of the early BR years here in Oz.

That rifle is now with Pete VanMeurs... bit of history in that rifle.

[jimbo]

That is sad news. I contacted Wally a couple years back about a rifle chambered in 23/40 from memory. Little BR rifle. It was built by Wally for one of his friends here in Oz. He even sent me a couple old photos of the early BR years here in Oz.

That rifle is now with Pete VanMeurs... bit of history in that rifle.

If it is the one that I am thinking of, he brought that rifle to Adelaide in 1977 and won the HV Nationals with it. Interesting cartridge.

[Ackley Improved]

cant miss it. Lime green, boosted 24X old loopy! Should have kept that bloody thing... on XP action I think it was!!

Real nice guy jimbo....

[macca]

As you get older this sort of news starts to occur too often.
A loss to shooting in general.