waksupi
04-05-2012, 06:03 PM
Last weekend at the Kalispell gun show, I met Andy Larsson, of Skinner sights. After a pleasant conversation, I ended up with one of his barrel mount sights for my Winchester 94AE.
Today I had a chance to mount it on the rifle, and give it a try. Installation was simple, the only thing I saw in the instructions I did different, was instead of doing some light filing to the rifle dovetail to make the mounting easier, I filed a touch on the sight itself. It took very little to start the sight.
I have believed for a long time, you always file or cut on the most easily replaced part, when working on a firearm or anything else, for that matter.
Once I had it mounted, I used the receiver sight that was already on the rifle, to bring the new sight into alignment. This cuts down on a lot of extra fiddling around when doing a sight change like this.
I was happy to see that the sight was easily picked up when I mounted the rifle, with a good field of view. It has a removable aperture that opens up the sight even more, and would be the way to go for hunting, or low light conditions.
The aperture can be installed on either side of the ring. I chose to mount it in a forward position, to avoid accidently having it be loosened by hand contact while carrying. Probably not a real concern, but I'm a belt and suspenders type of guy.
Shooting from the bench I found, as expected, that the sight did every bit as good as the receiver sight I previously had mounted. Group at 50 yards was around 1.5", which is as good as I can see the sights, and comparable with other rifles at that range for me.
All in all, I am quite pleased with this sight. Once the weather gets better (snowing now), I will take it up in the mountains for some serious plinking.
Take a look at the website, as there are sight models for various rifles.
Skinner Sights
P.O. box 404
St. Ignatius, Montana 59865
www.skinnersights.com
Today I had a chance to mount it on the rifle, and give it a try. Installation was simple, the only thing I saw in the instructions I did different, was instead of doing some light filing to the rifle dovetail to make the mounting easier, I filed a touch on the sight itself. It took very little to start the sight.
I have believed for a long time, you always file or cut on the most easily replaced part, when working on a firearm or anything else, for that matter.
Once I had it mounted, I used the receiver sight that was already on the rifle, to bring the new sight into alignment. This cuts down on a lot of extra fiddling around when doing a sight change like this.
I was happy to see that the sight was easily picked up when I mounted the rifle, with a good field of view. It has a removable aperture that opens up the sight even more, and would be the way to go for hunting, or low light conditions.
The aperture can be installed on either side of the ring. I chose to mount it in a forward position, to avoid accidently having it be loosened by hand contact while carrying. Probably not a real concern, but I'm a belt and suspenders type of guy.
Shooting from the bench I found, as expected, that the sight did every bit as good as the receiver sight I previously had mounted. Group at 50 yards was around 1.5", which is as good as I can see the sights, and comparable with other rifles at that range for me.
All in all, I am quite pleased with this sight. Once the weather gets better (snowing now), I will take it up in the mountains for some serious plinking.
Take a look at the website, as there are sight models for various rifles.
Skinner Sights
P.O. box 404
St. Ignatius, Montana 59865
www.skinnersights.com