Originally Posted by
Green Frog
IMHO, anything at all is an improvement over the buckhorn sight! Those things are an absolute abomination, and why they lasted as long as they did is anybody's guess. Hepburn was a target shooter himself, and if he designed it, you can bet it will be good to shoot with. BTW, did you get that rifle with both firing pins? Mine had the second under the butt plate so you could switch back and forth between rim fire and center fire. The 32 Colt Longs had just gotten a little rare and expensive when I owned mine back in the 1970s, and rimfire was in the highly collectible state. I wish I had kept that old rifle, but foolishly let it go for something I thought I needed worse! :( Mine had a 26" (IIRC) octagon barrel and was nearly perfect except for a couple of dime sized spots that had apparently had blood dripped on them and were pitted significantly. The bore was about a 9 1/2.
Froggie