I note the sights seem to be in the square post and notch configuration rather than the usual european pyramid and vee, perhaps because the rifle is a late model.

I’ve never found the latter at all useful, and hard on the eyes.

See, who needs optics?

“See, who needs optics?”

There was a man, Arthur Hart, who once had a custom or semi custom gun business in Cleveland. I caught up with him in the glide path of his life in the early 70’s when he had a gun store in Chesterland, Ohio.

He had fotos on the store walls of rifle teams (1000 yd) he was in as a younger man, taken at Camp Perry. Many in the fotos had small swing-down lenses attatched to the stems of their glasses to
improve their shooting- you couldn’t/can’t put a scope on a service rifle, but you could add lenses to your glasses.

I saw such items still in use per an article in the discontinued, sadly, magazine “Accurate Rifle” dealing with service rifle competition, in that case a bolt action with open sights as in the post offered here.

The supplementary lenses allow a clear image of the front sight for old eyes. A “pink” buffalo out in the open doesn’t need any extra glass.

You know this happened more than four years ago, right?

And four shots to score one hit on a stationary target at 2240 doesn’t impress near as much as Billy Dixon shooting a Comanche warrior off his horse with a single shot from his .50 Sharps at 1538 yards at Apache Wells in 1874.

https://truewestmagazine.com/a-long-shot/