Hi
Let's try my question this way. I need better sights on my Cavalry Sharps to compete in the long range portion of the match and also to successfully work up a load for the rifle. The Chiappa sights are loose and can only be used at short range. I have these options:
1. Replace the barrel sights with the Smith Enterprises if they fit. I'll email Buffalo arms and check.
2. Replace the barrel sights with the C. Sharps arms buckhorn sight.
3. Add a Soule Vernier sight to the tang. The sight itself could be removed for the closer range part of the competition.
4. Add a Marble Improved sight to the tang. This is a lower cost alternative, but would have to be wholly removed for competition. The base is much larger on the Marble that the ones on the Verniers.
In a quick run through of Doug McChristian's book, I saw nothing helpful with respect to the sights on a Sharps. The Officer's model Trapdoors had tang sights, but not the regular issue models. The Sharps used was supposed to be an old Civil War model in .50-70, and mainly issued to the troops for hunting, and to contract employees.
If legal to shoot, I would like to put in a Soule Vernier tang sight. If not legal to shoot with, I might do it anyway as an aide in working up a load. If it fits, I might also put in the Smith Enterprises sight, they make one where the long range slide has a locking mechanism.
Thanks