Rear sight placement

[billd]

I know this subject has been beaten to death several times over, but one more question please.  As most of us know, the older you get the farther up the barrel the sight must go. How far can you move the sight up the barrel before it looks weird?

Thanks,
Bill

[chapmans]

Bill,
  It all depends on how long the barrel is, on a 42" bbl I move mine to 14" from the breech I don't think it looks bad and it sure is easier to see.
  Steve C.

[billd]

Thanks Steve,   I should have said this one has a 44" barrel.  14" puts it right over the front of the entry thimble.

[David Price]

billd

Make sure that you don't put the sight where your hand would be when carrying it at the balance point.

I usually put mine between twelve and fourteen inches from the breech, depending how long the barrel is.

[Don Getz]

The rear sight placement is kind of a personal thing,  you have to put it where you can see it.  Tape it to the barrel and
try it at different places.  It's amazing but since I have gone to the old time sights, small with a rather fine notch in the
rear, I seem to be able to see it.   However, I must admit they would not be my preference for target shooting.......Don

[Leprechaun]

As most of us know, the older you get the farther up the barrel the sight must go. How far can you move the sight up the barrel before it looks weird?

Thanks,
Bill

How far up the barrel?, well, regardless of your age, it should go all the way to the top. If it's somewhere on the side, THAT looks weird. JMHO

[Roger Fisher]

I have gone down this road a couple or three times including having the eyeglasses set up to clear the sights but left the target fuzzy Drives you crazy.

To my knowledge you can't clear up the rear and frt sights AND the target.  So, I settled on a pretty clear target and a pretty clear frt post sight and a 'kinda' fuzzy rear square notch!   Actually works sometimes!   I'd have to measure; but the rear sight is down the top flat about a foot or better from the breech!

I have a rifle 'round here somewhere that has an 'ivory' (style) insert in frt blade.  I can see it well with light behind me (no not a spotlite in the truck); but shooting in silohuette it's the same as a plain black post! (And hard to pick up on an all black target i.e the 8 ring black bull)



 

[fm tim]

You can obtain sighting devices from Brownells that act like closing the F stop on a camera.  They increase the depth of field so that the target and the sights are in better focus.  They suction-cup onto a pair of glasses.
http://www.brownells.com/aspx/ns/store/productdetail.aspx?p=8767
They are a tremendous help to those of us with contact lenses for distance because the lenses impair close in work.

[Roger Fisher]

You can obtain sighting devices from Brownells that act like closing the F stop on a camera.  They increase the depth of field so that the target and the sights are in better focus.  They suction-cup onto a pair of glasses.
http://www.brownells.com/aspx/ns/store/productdetail.aspx?p=8767
They are a tremendous help to those of us with contact lenses for distance because the lenses impair close in work.

Unfortunately that 'merit' disk attachment on the eyeglass is verboten at many shoots....!

[J.D.]

Roger is right on, about fuzzy sights. I learned, as a high power competitor, that it is impossible to focus the eye on three different distances at once.  The front sight should be clear, but the rear sight and target should be slightly fuzzy. It's the focus on the front sight that insures good scores, so I wouldn't worry too much about a fuzzy rear sight.