Rear sight location

[tg]

Considering the number of people who move the sights or have them originaly set forward 11" or whatever, it can hardly be called an old wives tale as it is a fact the the sight picture can be cleared up,changed or whatever you wish to call it. I have done it and it is real, I cannot answer why NO ONE has ever move the sights on a cartridge gun. I have not shot one since my eyesight changed most people I know who use them use scopes or peeps. I am very interested in the research that determined that there has never been a rear sight repositioned on a cartridge gun with an oct barrel, the wide use of buckhorn sights on oct barreled cartrideg guns might influence things,if it is just the fact that one has not been found or seen, I have not seen mars personaly but am content thta it is eally there.I also think there are some surviving MLs with indications that the sights were moved, others may know more of this

 

[Stumpkiller]

Even the dear 'ol 1873 Winchester would look odd with a 42" or 44" barrel.

Cartridge arms tend to have much shorter barrels so it isn't as difficult for us old sots to get the front and rear sights in the same blur.

On the long barrel falling blocks and such - they solved it with tang sights.


Besides Deadeye - I've seen pictures of your walls. Your eyes when you are 80 will probably be better than mine were when I was 20. Without my glasses I can't see the length of a 12" ruler to read newspaper sized print and I have an astigmatism. A true mole.