Remington 1858, Navy, stainless, target, anyone wants it?

[Eyrie G. Dogg]

Mr. Special -
Target sights are fine but you have greatly overstated your case against stock/factory sights. I use eight various unmodified Colt/Remington Piettas ranging in dates from 1996 to 2017, bought new from either Cabelas or EMF. They all hit quite well. They are not “nearly useless”, nope. Maybe you got Friday late afternoon lemons or just need more practice.

 

[hawg]

Not for me. I mean, yeah, the full-on adjustable target sights might be a bit much, but the tiny little "V notch and brass pip" arrangement can be the limiting factor on a repro. Especially for folks who put hundreds of dollars into making one of these things reliable and accurate, why then handicap yourself with nearly useless sights that can't be adjusted and don't hit anywhere close to POA?

I'm in it for the historical aspect. I won't spend one penny modernizing one. Mine are reliable and at least as accurate as I am. Yeah there's one or two I have to use a little Kentucky windage on but that doesn't bother me in the least. My modern handguns with adjustable sights that don't hit to POA I never adjust. I just aim where they hit.

 

[.38 Special]

...just need more practice.

Well that is possible. It's also possible that you can't hit with much of anything and don't know the difference. That'd be rude to suggest to some stranger on the internet, though, over what would otherwise be a harmless difference of opinion.

 

[.38 Special]

My modern handguns with adjustable sights that don't hit to POA I never adjust. I just aim where they hit.

It's your gun, but that's honestly kind of strange. Do you stick with the original air in your car tires?

 

[hawg]

It's your gun, but that's honestly kind of strange. Do you stick with the original air in your car tires?

Why is it strange? I grew up on fixed sight single actions. No, but I use the same type air.

 

[.38 Special]

Why is it strange? I grew up on fixed sight single actions. No, but I use the same type air.

I even adjust fixed sights to impact at POA, by turning the barrel and filing the front sight. Not doing it with modern adjustable sights, which takes just a few moments, is incomprehensible to me. I really like to pick up a handgun and see a clean notch and blade, and to know that if I line them up correctly I will be rewarded with a hole perched right on top.

As I noted, "your guns, your rules", of course.

 

[hawg]

I might feel different if I was a paper puncher but I abhor punching paper. It bores me to tears and if all I could do was punch paper I just wouldn't shoot.

 

[woodnbow]

Not for me. I mean, yeah, the full-on adjustable target sights might be a bit much, but the tiny little "V notch and brass pip" arrangement can be the limiting factor on a repro. Especially for folks who put hundreds of dollars into making one of these things reliable and accurate, why then handicap yourself with nearly useless sights that can't be adjusted and don't hit anywhere close to POA?

I’ve had plenty of fixed sight guns that wouldn’t be made to hit point of aim. Those get sold to someone who’s not as finicky. I tinker with front or rear sight filing or replacing, turning barrels, etc. The most endearing aspect of a fixed sight gun is its dead flat reliab as a stone hammer nature. I’ve always packed pistols on foot, in vehicles and horseback. I like to know nothing short of catastrophe, or my inability, can cause a miss.

 

[Ugly Sauce]

I've been lucky that I've never had a fixed-sight pistol that was off windage-wise. Elevation, I do install taller front sights. POI and POA being important to me. I don't have a huge number of pistols, but I'm not smart enough to remember where each one hits, or doesn't hit. !! I need them to be all the same.