Abstract: A mounting apparatus for mounting an optical sight on a rifle has an elongated rail and a mounting base projecting downwardly from the rail for securing the rail on a rifle. The rail has an upwardly facing channel extending along its length for receiving a mounting element of a first type of optical sight, the base of the channel having a plurality of openings for receiving fastener devices for selectively securing an optical sight at a selected location along the length of the rail. The opposite sides of the rail each have a plurality of spaced tabs forming a Picatinney rail for mounting a second type of optical sight having a mounting element for engaging over the Picatinney rail. The mounting rail therefore combines the mounting formations for two different types of optical sight in a single rail.

Abstract: A handle apparatus for a fishing pole is depended thereto by a pivoture of limited range being inertially reactive in ordinary use. The reaction coordinatedly levers a triggerhorn feature against and back from an ordinary "spin-casting" type reel, eliminating nuisance control efforts otherwise required of the user's thumb and without creating any alternative nuisance tasks. An intermedial shoe comprises economical retro-fitting or mounting adaptation means toward previously existing poles which have more or less generic, rearend shanks, normally outfitted by but deposeable of common handlegrip articles. A similarly dimensioned shank termination of the new handle apparatus is for outfitting by any appropriate or deposed handlegrip.