Upgraded Henry's sights

[TedH]

I never thought much of the sights that came on my Henry .22. I had a small scope on it for a while but really wanted to go back to irons. I thought about replacing the front barrel band/sight with the metal replacement, but being a cheapskate I thought of an alternative. I cut off the plastic post front sight and then cut a dovetail in the sight base to install a bead sight I already had. That turned out pretty good so I went ahead and drilled & tapped the receiver for an extra Williams sight that I had on hand.

Should be lots better than the course plastic sights it had.

[Hagler]

Ted,

That looks good! Nice work.

Shawn

[Pete44ru]

Thanks for posting your front sight blade/barrel band alteration, Ted - I might just have to upgrade the orange painted issue blade on my H001:



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[TedH]

Pete,
I see you have a blank in the rear sight dovetail. Did you find one the right size, or just make one out of the original rear sight? The dovetail in mine is much wider than the standard 3/8", it measures about .495".

[BenT]

Ted I'm glad to see somebody did what I was thinking with the front sight. I have the aluminum Henry front sight/barrel band that I was going use . But I want to put a peep on top of the receiver like Pete's. Thanks for the report.

[Ysabel Kid]

Great idea Ted!

I am going to have to do something like this with my son's H001L. Both of us don't like the front sight as it is right now...

[Pete44ru]

The filler blank's just a standard one, I think - that I happened to have on hand.
It fit, so I used it, w/o any measuring.

Comme ci, comme sa - eh ? (kohm see, kohm sah)

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[TedH]

Mine's definately not the standard 3/8". Looks like I'll be making one out of the original rear sight.

[Andrew]

I don't know what you guys are talkin' about, my sights are great and work ju........oops, you're talking about something else.

[TedH]

Smart A#$!

We can't all afford those high dollar .22's!