RE: Shooting open sights???
sabotloader said:
have a v fiber optic as the rear site and but with a rampWilliams fiber front site with a open hood (so light can get into the fiber bead)on that. I installed these on a bare GM barrel that I purchased and put into a TC Hawkin stock. The front ramp with hood forms a circle around the target area or animal and the bead is in the center of that circle. I am a scope shooter so this site picture really appeals to me.
I took an insert for the globe sight and adapted my rear sight with it. Both for my hawkin and my NEF. They are pedersoli inserts for their front sight meant to be used in combinationwith a tang mountedaperture rear sight. But iuse the cross hair with a circle in the middle as the rear sight. The circle in the middle of the cross hairs acts as an aperture that I can center the bead of the front sight in. Because the circle in the middle of the cross-hairs is above the sighting location in the buckhorns, my zero in the lowest settinghappens to be farther than if I sighted with buckhorns in the same setting (on the ramp). So the potential for range isextended by this arrangment and it works well with bigger slower moving projectiles.
Sighting is as simple as putting the crosshairs on the target, then centering the bead of the frontsight in the circlein the middle of the cross hairs. I really like this arrangment. Now my brother doesn't like it but he is far sighted and presbiopic. Again I love it.
Happy hunting, Phil