MikeG said:
Tang sight on a lightweight, hard kicking gun is a good way to poke your eye out. Pay attention to what you are doing, and wear safety glasses of some sort.... good luck.
Is a danger...but it will fold forwards and you should be wearing glasses for any type of shooting. Can adjust the locking screw so that if flops forward easily...recoil will leave the sight leaning forward after each shot, but seeing as you have to stop to reload it each time, that's not a big deal.
Have used a Lyman Supertarget spot 30X on a 30-06. HAs all of 1 1/4" of eye relief. Loosen the set of the recoil spring so it doesn't function (could order them without the spring) and never got touched by the scope...it slides in the mount (actually, the rifle recoils and inerita leaves the scope in place, but effect is the same). Wiht a bit less spring pressure on the detent and with the clamp screw backed off a bit, the tall tang can act the same way.
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Long as I'm at it. The sight has range markings along the staff. Unfortunaely, they are blued along with the staff. Better to dissassemble it and polish that area to make the numbers stand out. Very fine grit paper (or abrasive cloth) on a chunk of plate glass will do it in just a few passes.
Short tang sights make it a bit too eacy to slip the butt from your sholder and ram the top of the sight into your face (or eye)...but the same type of misshap can happen with a scope sight as well.
The one you ordered is a good sight...worth the money, but not comparable to the items costing 3X as much. Once set, it will group just as well as the expensive ones. The $ of the higher priced items is in their ability to adjust and re-set with meaningful amounts for each click.