front sight

[kb7tgr]

I put a marbles tang on my 94 win. I am going to shoot 100-300 yards. would you stay with the stock front sight
or change it?

[fouronesix]

I imagine the factory front is a bead. I prefer a regular thin to medium width blade (no bead). Better sight picture for the longer distances with the relatively smaller visual aiming points or bulls. For strictly target shooting at bulls, a front globe sight is hard to beat.

[northmn]

The front sight as important a part of your sighting system as the rear, maybe more so. It is difficult to state what makes the best because it is an individual thing. I always used a bead on my muzzleloading target rifles because I needed to see the top of the front sight. Now I use fiberoptic beads because they stand out and are easier for me to see. As the previous poster stated, for paper, a globe sight with inserts is considered a standard.

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[Marvin S]

You need to shoot it first to see what height you may or may not need.

[Scharfschuetze]

I also prefer a square top blade or post front sight with an aperture rear sight. I've used them for plinking, hunting, NM and small bore match shooting. I can refine my sight picture to a greater extent with them than with a bead.

With a blade front sight, you can install a taller than necessary sight, and then file it down until you raise your POI to coincide with your POA (as noted above) at the range you want to zero at.

[pietro]

I put a marbles tang on my 94 win. I am going to shoot 100-300 yards. would you stay with the stock front sight
or change it ?




I changed my front sight, strictly to use a front sight of my druthers ( a fiber-optic bead), but I installed one the same height as the issue front sight.

I also switched out the rear barrel iron/open sight to a folder, so I could zero the barrel sights @ 100yds, for those game shots that are quickly presented; and zero the tang sight for 250 yds.

It's a pretty simple matter, to hunt the barrel sights for quick shooting, or simultainously lower the folder & raise the tang sight if/when game is spotted further away.

I've always had ample time, at the longer game distance, to switch over from the bbl sights to the tang sight.


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[rhead]

It is really whatever your eye can give you the most reproducible sight picture at that distance from your eyeball. If you have friends with a similar setup with different front sights you can narrow it down to just a few Most gun shops have a box of sights that have been removed. Work out a deal to try three or four. Keep the best and return the rest for the deposit that you left.