Yes the receiver is the rear iron buck horn sight with a small "u" groove. the thin blade is brass rounded in the back. I am curious what others think the reason is for the rounded part to face the shooter and why it is rounded in the first place? The reason I am asking is I have seen some install the opposite way?
The rounded part of the blade points to the muzzle and the ramp toward the shooter? Is this what you mean?
I am still learning how to send pictures. The drawing is the same as the sights I am mentioning except his drawing shows a straight up face the one I am talking about is curved almost a quarter of a circle instead of flat. The question I am asking is what other people think the curved face does in aiding a shooter if any?Gotta love a confusing conversation
OP, a picture is worth a thousand words.
As we've already determined, you meant to say blade sight, not post. I think.
And everyone knows the ramp part of a sight is the part that goes from the barrel upwards to the apex.
That ramp is typically serrated on a modern sight. But on a ML it was pointed forward towards the muzzle so as not to pick up glare. Although if memory serves me Alvin York applied a little spit to cut down the glare. Whether shooting turkeys with a ML or Nazis with his movie 1893 Springfield. Which does have a blade style front sight.
But Hawkens have a stock front sight like sketched above by 64Springers young child
And IMO that's really not what you are describing either. But it might be. And the stock sights were made of steel in production guns like TC.
But if you have the gun I just sold I had it replaced with a rounded blade because my eyes like it.
Who made your Hawken?
And how about a pic of your sight. Or at least share your thoughts so we might know what you are referring to.
You are close to what I think!oops. Adding to the confusion I typed 1893 instead of 1903.
I have no idea what a curved face (front?) sight does except channeling the light, and therefore the focus, to the top of the sight.
The Mud clears !!
Very little bead showing is the key to precise accuracy. The reason I posed my question of why the blade is rounded is I think a lot of people haven't given it a thought. I have used that method when I am looking for the best accuracy I can get. What makes it more accurate is light reflecting of the bead. I have shot three shots in an oval one hole at a hundred yards using that method. I bury the sight and get the glint of the bead flickering almost to low to achieve my best accuracy. If you get a chance try it if you haven't already. It is amazing how tight of a group you can get. I honestly believe it is more accurate way of shooting than using a peep sight. there are draw backs that being when no light is reflecting off the sight but at the bench in an open area it is extremely accurate way to shoot.
The sight is a Patridge. A partridge is a hard to hit bird.
