Adjustable sight on Plains Pistol?

[buttonbuck]

I was wondering if anyone had any luck with ANY MAKE of adjustable sights on a Lyman Plains Pistol, I can live with the ones you file but would perfer to have adjustable sights. My goal is to be able to successfully shoot round balls and real bullets with different powder charges and hunt deer with these loads. I like to use a sight like the lyman 16aml and 37 aml like the ones lyman advertises to go on their rifles. When I got my kit I tried these "the 16, & 37 aml. sights but broke the rear sight when I tried to move the windage . let me know

 

[jtmattison]

If you are going to use it for hunting I don't see why you would need to change your sight adjustment for PRB and REAL's. The effective range of the pistol is very short, say 25 yards. I wouldn't think the point of impact on the two different projectiles would be too far off inside the effective range. Have you fired them both with the same point of aim to see the different point of impact? Having an adjustable sight is probably not necessary.

Just my two cents.

:hatsoff:

HD

 

[buttonbuck]

any ideas on how to make the sight more visable? with paint or something. I honestly shot the real once with 40 grs of 3f goex and ouch.... would like to try lighter load. I agree with the range, some claim to get good groups at 50 yards with the gp pistol

 

[jtmattison]

You could paint the front sight with white or fluorescent orange/yellow paint.

40 grains of 3f and a REAL is a thumper. I wouldn't shoot a lot of them in one session. The grip on the pistol is not very comfortable for shooting heavy loads IMO.

People may get good groups at 50 yards but that is out of the kill range for the pistol IMO. I wouldn't shoot an animal with my .54 Plains Pistol outside of 25 yards. I respect the game too much to risk wounding it.

HD