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How about tang sight vs. receiver sight vs. heel sight?
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Or receiver plus heel sight?

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You can never have enough sights Steve!

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I’d like to have someone show me how to use a heel sight someday. Looks ridiculous but I’m pretty sure it works. That could be a 40″ sight radius. 

 

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TXGunNut said
I’d like to have someone show me how to use a heel sight someday. Looks ridiculous but I’m pretty sure it works. That could be a 40″ sight radius. 
 
Mike
  

Look at the old lithographs or drawings of the American team’s various shooting positions when they competed against the Irish riflemen at Creedmore Range in 1874.  The heel sight is used lying down. 

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Zebulon said

TXGunNut said
I’d like to have someone show me how to use a heel sight someday. Looks ridiculous but I’m pretty sure it works. That could be a 40″ sight radius. 
 
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Look at the old lithographs or drawings of the American team’s various shooting positions when they competed against the Irish riflemen at Creedmore Range in 1874.  The heel sight is used lying down. 
  

Not the standard prone position either.  In this style shooting you are lying on your back, feet forward and the barrel might be rested between your toes.  The butt of the rifle is often rested in the crook of the arm.  

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