Pork Fat
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I picked up a nice little Stevens .22 rifle years ago at a gun show. It has a folding blade open rear sight just ahead of the receiver, a tapped hole for a receiver sight on the left rear, and a hooded front sight with an aperture up front. It is a Model 56C, labeled "Buckhorn Rifle" on the bottom of the barrel, just forward of the stock.
My question is- What is the sight picture supposed to look like? There was nothing resembling one when using the notched open blade. This led me to install a no-name aperture on the receiver, which is not made for this rifle and seems a bit fragile. Much better sight picture, but without a bead or post I can't really use a 6:00 hold. I just use point of aim, which works fine for tin cans, but not so good for bullseye paper targets. The ring around the front aperture obscures a great deal of the target. It does center itself nicely, small ring inside bigger, fuzzy ring.
I believe that this rifle was slightly tarted up over a standard model and given target pretensions. I would like to see what it can do, but my ignorance of this sighting arrangement and a lack of Stevens factory support keep my $90 find a cabinet queen.
My question is- What is the sight picture supposed to look like? There was nothing resembling one when using the notched open blade. This led me to install a no-name aperture on the receiver, which is not made for this rifle and seems a bit fragile. Much better sight picture, but without a bead or post I can't really use a 6:00 hold. I just use point of aim, which works fine for tin cans, but not so good for bullseye paper targets. The ring around the front aperture obscures a great deal of the target. It does center itself nicely, small ring inside bigger, fuzzy ring.
I believe that this rifle was slightly tarted up over a standard model and given target pretensions. I would like to see what it can do, but my ignorance of this sighting arrangement and a lack of Stevens factory support keep my $90 find a cabinet queen.