Hey all,
Here's the deal.
I'm 65, and got the creepin' presbyopia.
Cannot focus the semi buckhorn (I think the name of?) rear sight on my Model 94 worth a darn.
[...without specs, which I don't always have with me, and what if you needed your rifle and didn't have your specs!]
BUT I was handling my grandfather's .22 today
[which I am NOT recalling the make of, it doesn't matter to this post but it BUGs me, I'll edit tomorrow!]
which has a disc peep rear sight AND IT WORKED GREAT!
It was still blurry but it doesn't matter, it seems!
Apparently the blur is concentric and uniform,
gray-blur inner turning to black as it moves out,
and the front sight centers up in that image quite well.
I'm sure not as well as if the rear sight were dead crisp, but pretty darn good, and a darn site better than the semi-buckhorn.
SO... my question is...
How do I get me something peepish on my Model 94?
I guess the two possibilities are:
1- a Lyman or such receiver peep sight, or
2- a flip up tang peeper
[although hmmm... aren't both of these more ghost-y than true "disc peep"?]
[will they still "work" for my eyes as well as the disc peep?]
The rifle isn't with me right now, but I THINK it WASN'T drilled for a receiver sight.
Mine is from 1940-something, from the period where the records got burnt, so I don't know for sure.
If it's not already drilled I'd sort of hate to "alter" it, so that might make my mind up for me.
[...unless EVERYBODY here says, "No, no, no the tang sites are horrible, put the receiver sight on there", in which case I might think on it]
But for right now, can y'all tell me about putting a tang sight on my old 94?
Or for that matter go ahead and discuss receiver vs. tang, in case my 94 IS drilled for a receiver sight.
a) can you get old, original ones from way back, floating around out there if you look? or at least someone making real good reproductions? (who, and where and how?)
b) and is the tang sight install simple and non-destructive to the old rifle, isn't it? just screws on? receiver sight the same, if the rifle is already drilled for it?
Or if there's ALL SORTS of discussion about this issue, lay it on me!
I want to
- learn
- and get lots of good data to move forward with
Thanks all,
James