QCI Winchesters wrote:The shimming business on tang sights is not very satisfactory, unless you confine your shooting to one distance, say, 100 yards. If your sight is not level, any elevation adjustment will also be a windage adjustment.
I agree, sadly there is no such thing as a free lunch. The effect of a canted sight on windage with any change in elevation makes the Lyman a workable option on a non adjustable front sight carbine, only if you plan to shoot with a fixed zero, and that's why you shim for windage after you've established the elevation.
The alternative on a Model 94 with a fixed front sight is the Marbles sight, which has less eye appeal than the Lyman sight (it's that no free lunch thing again).
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I have Marbles standard tang sights on most of my lever guns but I have a Lyman No 2 on a Model 94 in .30-30 along with a Lyman 17A globe front sight and it'll will produce 1 1/2-2" groups at 100 yards. It works well as the front sight is drift adjustable for zero and once zeroed, I don't change the elevation or windage when hunting with it.
If you go that route keep it as low as possible and go with the 17AHB sight (.404" high).
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With either the Lyman or Marbles sight I'm a big fan of the Merit #4 Hunter adjustable aperture. It has an adjustment range of .022" to .125" in eleven finger adjustable steps, letting you stop the aperture up or down for the light conditions. And with a 1/2" disc it's still small enough to see around when shooting with both eyes open at short ranges.
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