Selecting Front Sight Height

[dak0ta]

Hi,

I recently put on a Skinner Express sight on my Marlin 30as. The rear is higher so I need to adjust the front sight with a higher one, and it's recommended a 0.57" or 0.6" sight height is necessary.

Is it safer to just get a 0.6" front sight height and if the gun shoots low with the rear sight at its lowest position, one could just raise the rear sight to bring the point of impact up?

 

[Varminterror]

Brownells has a sight height calculator. Tends to work well.

Personally, if the calculator yielded something between these two options with varying calculator inputs, then I’m impatient enough and financially stable enough that I’d buy both, return the one which didn’t fit.