For me peep sights are the way to go. They focus your eye a lot better. But you also may want to try a Red Dot/RMR sight.
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For me peep sights are the way to go. They focus your eye a lot better. But you also may want to try a Red Dot/RMR sight.
Old style African shallow V ! Good idea scattershot. I forgot all about those.
They were well used on some ML's also.
Wanted to thank you guys for all your thoughts. I've sat with this and had an honest dialogue with my eyes and took in everything you've contributed here. Hard to accept limitations, I guess. At any rate I've finally accepted my peep days are behind me, at least for any hunting. The 2.5 x 20 FX II Ultralight is about as perfect an optic, in my book, as I could mount on this rifle. Putting game down cleanly is more important than any ego/attachment I might have to a more traditional setup.
Just want to say, yet again, the high regard I hold for Andy Larsson and Skinner Sights. We were in contact throughout this and he was and remains great to deal with.
i cant see the fore sight anymore in or range. 200 meter indoor( old railway tunnel) so i just use scopes .
What I mean is, to get a clear view through the scope without the image tunneling, I have to keep my cheek way back on the stock which is uncomfortable. There is a distance from the eye to the lens that is optimal, and on this scope its too much.
FWIW-I have several leverguns, and the all have irons. And when I buy another, the buckhorn comes off "toot sweet."
My M71 has a Williams receiver-sight with an ivory-beaded front. All my leverguns are carbines, mostly with 20" barrels, though some have 16" or 21-22".
I have a .256WinMag M92 Rossi with a Lyman tang-sight, and a Trapper's model .44Mag with a "Steve's Gunz peep that replaces the safety. The .44 has a brass-bead front and the .256 has a fiber-optic sight.
All of my leverguns are used with cast boolits, and shot at 50 yards, primarily, because of my sight. I am 75yo.
If I am shooting lots further, I have scoped rifles with 1-4x variables to 8-25x variables with a sprinkling of 2.5x, 3x and 4x fixed-power mostly with Lee-dots of different sizes.
when I go hunting or plinking with the leverguns, I take the disc off an use the "ghost-sight" method. The buckhorns cover too much area, and make it difficult to pick up moving targets.
Have fun with those leverguns,
Gene