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Tang sights will give a much longer sight radius, and that generally helps accuracy...more noticable as range increases than at short ranges, but measurably better even at short ranges.
Do suport the idea of non-scoped lever-rifles. For serious hunting, nothing works as well as a scope...but shooting should be about pleasure/fun.
Have a large following (with a nice web site) of black powder single shot shooters in GB....and what they have to say about tang sights holds just as true for lever rifles as it does for single shots.
Besides the big single shots, use a tang sight on an older Winchester 38-55 and an old Marlin 32-20 pump (mod. 27). Also use Lyman/Redfield.Williams reciever sights on a couple of rifles. Have to admit that I can't find any real accuracy advatage to the tang peep's extra two or three inches of sight radius over the reciever mounted sights...the tang sights just look more "period".
the advantage of the reciever smounted apatures is in their fine adjustments...the advantage of the tang sights is their ability to supply extream elevation adjustment, look "right" on old rifles, and put that apature very close to your eye.
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Have read reports of a few people who've managed to jam the tang sight into their eye in a slip/fall while sighting (should have been wearing glasses). I've not had it happen and wonder if they wouldn't have managed to damage themselves no matter what sight they were using....but I offer it as a possibility.
Do suport the idea of non-scoped lever-rifles. For serious hunting, nothing works as well as a scope...but shooting should be about pleasure/fun.
Have a large following (with a nice web site) of black powder single shot shooters in GB....and what they have to say about tang sights holds just as true for lever rifles as it does for single shots.
Besides the big single shots, use a tang sight on an older Winchester 38-55 and an old Marlin 32-20 pump (mod. 27). Also use Lyman/Redfield.Williams reciever sights on a couple of rifles. Have to admit that I can't find any real accuracy advatage to the tang peep's extra two or three inches of sight radius over the reciever mounted sights...the tang sights just look more "period".
the advantage of the reciever smounted apatures is in their fine adjustments...the advantage of the tang sights is their ability to supply extream elevation adjustment, look "right" on old rifles, and put that apature very close to your eye.
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Have read reports of a few people who've managed to jam the tang sight into their eye in a slip/fall while sighting (should have been wearing glasses). I've not had it happen and wonder if they wouldn't have managed to damage themselves no matter what sight they were using....but I offer it as a possibility.
