Has anyone tried the Lyman receiver sights?

[redneck]

I was just looking at one on their website, the one thats supposed to fit their great plains rifle.
It looks pretty nice, and I like the audible click adjustment. Its quite a bit of money to shell out for sights though (did I mention I'm cheap?)
I want to shoot my rifle some more before I commit cause I'm still learning the ropes. Only have about 65 rounds through it, and I was getting some respecable results out at 50 yards the last time I had it out.
The stock sights are just a little too coarse, and I don't like tapping them side to side in the dovetail to adjust them.

Would anyone recommend them that has tried them? They would see use mainly for target shooting at 50 and sometimes 100 yards, and would probably also be needed for hunting deer someday.

Any other sights I should look into?

This sucks, I have three rifles I shoot alot. The GPR, a marlin .22, and a gamo 220 air rifle. The gamo has really fine bead fiber optic sights with 1/4 MOA clicks and has pretty much spoiled me. I don't want to go fiber optic on the GPR, and it doesn't look like I have too many options on the .22 besides a scope (I might paint the front sight on it) Life's tough aint it

 

[RobW]

I have the Lyman receiver sight (peep sight) on my Winchester 94. It wouldn't be historical accurate to put one on your front-stuffer. A tang-sight would be the right thing to have, but the Lyman tang sights are NOT adjustable for windage. A real good tang sight starts at $ 140.00 at Cabelas.

My receiver sight really helped me with my aging sight!

 

[redneck]

Thanks
How do you like the peep sight though? I'm not super concerned with historically accurate as long as its not something like homeboy nights sights
I'll look for tang sights though as thats what I was originally thinking of. They didn't have them listed under the black powder section on the lyman site though. Have to compare them to the peep sights. Hopefully they're cheaper!

 

[4v50 Gary]

Per se aperture sights are nothing new and there have even been crossbows with rear aperture sights. They were more popular in the Islamic World and the Arabic people installed a tang sight (rounded pyramid) with various holes for different distances.

There are western examples of peep sight too, but they weren't very popular (and the older open sight was easier to make).

 

[redneck]

Lyman doesn't list any tang sights for their muzzle loaders. Only a receiver/peep sight thats mounted on the tang.
Does anybody know if the tang sights listed for the lever rifles will fit?

Also, do the tang sights fold down flat against the stock? Looks like they could get beat up/broken off pretty easily otherwise seeing as how they stick up so far.

 

[RobW]

The peep sight (it comes with 2 screw-in apertures) helped me to enhance my groups from 6" to 2" at 100 yds (.44 Mag. cowboy loads with 200 gr LRNFP and 5.8 gr TiteGroup).

I use the sight as a "ghost-ring" meaning no apertures screwed in. I highly recommend it, and, it's affordable, but you have to have it done by a gunsmith.

Another consideration against a tang sight is, if you have stout recoil with full-blast loads. More than likely, the tang-sight will land on your (hopefully protected) eye. Another point for the receiver sight!

Just be sure that you don't get one of this earlier aluminum-alloy sights, Lyman produced for some years. Has to do with different stretching in weather-conditions/chamber heat up between alu and steel.

 

[redneck]

Thanks I'll have to try to find one somewhere to look over in person. It sounds pretty promising. Don't need a gunsmith or anything, Lyman sells an adapter so that it looks like its basically the peep sight you have on the receiver of your lever gun, but you mount it on the tang (which is pre drilled) of the great plains rifle.
I don't know why they still call it a receiver sight, but thats what it says on the website