They gave the front sight it's own dovetail, these last couple I've had were made 2015 and 2016 and both had the front sight on the barrel and not on the band.
Those band sights both give up windage adjustments and the ability to swap out to a front sight of your liking.
I put these ladder sights made by Uberti. A friend had a couple he traded me for, and I used one on my Marlin 1894P and one on this Rossi .357.
While not as quality built as a Skinner or Smith Enterprise ladder sight, it does the job fine.
Someone commented that a ladder sight is not "right" on a short barreled carbine like a 16" or 20" lever gun.
I wonder why Winchester put the exact same sight (the Uberti one I have is an exact copy of the original Winchester carbine ladder) on carbines, from the 1866, 1873 to 1892, but not on the longer barreled rifles?
When you don't need to lob them in there, the ladder works just like a shallow notch leaf sight when folded down.
The stainless Rossi "trapper' .357 will probably get the bolt peep, and I'll zero for 50 yards. And have the ladder for the long range shooting.
The primary sight on this Marlin .44 below is the Skinner peep, but it has a ladder for long range if needed.