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January 8, 2025
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The 25-20 92 I did the stock work on and the 25-35 94. Finally got time and decent enough weather to get the barrels hot. Had to adjust the sight on the 92. They both shoot to point of aim now, even if I don’t. I need to learn more about the buckhorn sights of the 94. The carbine sight of the 92 I’m good with.
November 7, 2015
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Nice! Been getting any rain? 
No shooting here today, would have to duct tape the rifles to the concrete bench, a folding table would have dumped everything and led a merry chase.
Mike
January 8, 2025
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TXGunNut said
Nice! Been getting any rain? No shooting here today, would have to duct tape the rifles to the concrete bench, a folding table would have dumped everything and led a merry chase.
Mike
Yes, the rain has been coming regularly. The pasture is going yield some good round bales. It’s a little windy here. Thankfully not so bad when I was shooting. The 17 hmr I was sighting in drifted about 3 inches at 120yds with a 5-10 mph crosswind. At 35 yds I was shooting the numbers on the target.
January 20, 2023
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Adam, both those Winchesters are a pleasure to look at. Natural light illuminates detail like nothing else. I’m sure an expert could pick the results apart for some reason or another but both rifles look like they’ve weathered years of use in good hands and are still ready for more.
About the buckhorn sight. I’ve listened patiently to condescending explanations that you use it like an aperture sight and just look through it and put the bead on the target. In other words, the eye will center itself in the brightest part of a semicircle.
Bravo Sierra. I don’t believe it. For one thing, it isn’t close enough to the eye and, more importantly, light will enter asymetrically. Tang sights and Lyman 21/38 receiver sights were the marksman’s preference for a reason, even for snapshooting.
Original a full buckhorn may be but so was the chamber pot. Leave it in or sell it to a sight collector. Install a Lyman 1a and whatever higher front sight that requires, if you want a “usin’ gun.” Your eyes will thank you.
- Bill
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"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
January 8, 2025
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Zebulon said
Adam, both those Winchesters are a pleasure to look at. Natural light illuminates detail like nothing else. I’m sure an expert could pick the results apart for some reason or another but both rifles look like they’ve weathered years of use in good hands and are still ready for more.
About the buckhorn sight. I’ve listened patiently to condescending explanations that you use it like an aperture sight and just look through it and put the bead on the target. In other words, the eye will center itself in the brightest part of a semicircle.
Bravo Sierra. I don’t believe it. For one thing, it isn’t close enough to the eye and, more importantly, light will enter asymetrically. Tang sights and Lyman 21/38 receiver sights were the marksman’s preference for a reason, even for snapshooting.
Original a full buckhorn may be but so was the chamber pot. Leave it in or sell it to a sight collector. Install a Lyman 1a and whatever higher front sight that requires, if you want a “usin’ gun.” Your eyes will thank you.
That makes a lot of sense. Trying to set the post in the notch I was still moving 2” vertically but was dead on for windage. I have an 1885 45-70 Uberti. It has a full buckhorn. I have been thinking about getting a tang sight for it.
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