Hi all
I’ve mentioned I got a new Cimarron 1873 Short rifle. There was a prob with the first rifle I got, and Cimarron is replacing the rifle, I’m just waiting for the new rifle to come in. I have 72 yr old eyes and they don’t get along well with buckhorn sights. On my other rifles I have a Marbles tang sight on my Henry Golden boy, Skinner reciever mount peep sights on my Henry Big Boy, and 1894 Marlin, and on my Miroku Winchester 92 I have a Skinner barrel mounted peep sight that goes in place of the stock buckhorn sight. They all work very well, but I’m undecided as weather to get another Skinner barrel mounted peep sight like the one on my Miroku, or get a Marbles tang sight for the Cimarron 1873 short rifle. To my way of thinking, the tang sight is more period correct, and will give me a longer sight radius. But it will be more expensive for both the sight, and my gunsmiths installation. The Skinner barrel mounted sight on my Miroku works very good. although the sight radius is shorter, but it’s half the cost of the Marbles tang sight that would have to be installed by my gunsmith vs the Skinner that I can install myself!
So any recommendations and or opinions would be greatly appriciated.
Thanks
Paul