I have some old barrels with tiny sights. I`ll try to post later. We marvel at these small sights now , and every time they are mentioned , the comments come about , them not being good for a shooting match. This should be very evident. They probably would have never dreamed of wasting 5 lead balls to prove they could out shoot their neighbor. I read of an old shooting match where they shot at the bottom of a V , closest to the bottom won the match. Some one may come up with documents to prove different, but, I will never be convinced that as frugal as these people were , ie : reusing barrels and locks and mounts till there was nothing left to reuse. I can`t believe that they would waste that much lead for a shooting match. I recall reading something about a rifleman putting on a shooting demo or such and hitting a barrel head 99 times out of a hundred . As I said I can`t recall the whole story. He might have done that , but he was getting his lead from the army. There were probably frontier Indian fights where less than 5 shots were shot before a retreat was made. These modern sights in my personal opinion , look worse than just about anything you can do to a longrifle, and yes, I`ve used tons of them and HATED every set!
