David Bradshaw Photos Vol. 112 - Sights Under Adversity
Oct 21, 2020 19:02:27 GMT -5
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Post by Lee Martin on Oct 21, 2020 19:02:27 GMT -5
Thick woods, kaleidoscopic backgrounds, and older eyes call for sights which jump to the eye. Front sight especially, the start & finish of sighting.
Nearly to a person, silhouette competitors preferred black sights. Painted sights lost favor early in the game. Straight shooting Edna Huff squeezes another .44 Mag from her nickel S&W M-29 8-3/8", Red plastic insert Baughman ramp and rear sight sprayed with carbon black. Carbide lamps also popular, but don't use on plastic!
Early Ruger Blackhawk .44 Mag on firing line at an IHMSA championship. Blued gun, black sights. In silhouette the problem isn't in seeing the sights; the problem is to see the target. Yet eye remains, first on front sight; secondarily on rear. Distant silhouette looks like a piece of fuzz.
While at factory to have barrel set back----take up forcing cone erosion----S&W dovetailed ramp of this Model 19 .357 Mag to mold red insert. To imporove utility afield.
Black sights work against aerial targets in bare sky. This is clean of sighting. Ruger 03 with Meprolight 3-dot tritium sights may be considered black sights in daylight.
Thrown water jug takes hit from Super Blackhawk Bisley Hunter .44 Mag. Sights: Redhawk red ramp front, black notch rear. Red ramp works better under these conditions than a black post or ramp.
You have about a second to gather your sights on a thrown water jug. Against a jumble of trees and terrain, black sights prove difficult. Even the red ramp on this Ruger SBH Bisley Hunter .44 Mag has its work cut out. Moreso to hit a backlit flying target.
Black irons, as original narrow target sights on .357 Maximum, deliver accuracy in sunlight and diffusing bright light. Don't adapt so well to kaleidoscopic forest of the Northeast and like environs.
Redhawk fluorescent red insert (on Ruger 03) quickly picks up moving target. Ruger paired conventional V-notch rear with a tiny bead front sight. Ruger's miniature bead is nearly impossible to “speed read,”----thus out of character with English Express sights from which it derives----the English use a fat silver or gold or ivory bead. Instant visibility=speed. The flourescent post (ramp) much better than Ruger’s shrunken bead up close. Accuracy of fluorescent ramp in Express-V falls off at about 20-25 yards. David holds post level with top of V.
Square notch made visible with yellow paint improve distance possibilities over V-notch with little loss of speed. Front sight sharp, rear notch slightly fuzzy.
Aerial jug, thrown against a background of trees, hit with light target load from Ruger 03 using fluorescent red ramp and yellow notch sights. Note brass Ronnie Wells experimental Bison finger groove grip. Cast 195 Wadcutter over 4.5/231 in .45 ACP cut clean holes through flying jug. Although screwed firm to prevent leakage, cap blew off jug from hydraulic action----WITHOUT thread damage.
-Lee
www.singleactions.com
"Chasing perfection five shots at a time"
Nearly to a person, silhouette competitors preferred black sights. Painted sights lost favor early in the game. Straight shooting Edna Huff squeezes another .44 Mag from her nickel S&W M-29 8-3/8", Red plastic insert Baughman ramp and rear sight sprayed with carbon black. Carbide lamps also popular, but don't use on plastic!
Early Ruger Blackhawk .44 Mag on firing line at an IHMSA championship. Blued gun, black sights. In silhouette the problem isn't in seeing the sights; the problem is to see the target. Yet eye remains, first on front sight; secondarily on rear. Distant silhouette looks like a piece of fuzz.
While at factory to have barrel set back----take up forcing cone erosion----S&W dovetailed ramp of this Model 19 .357 Mag to mold red insert. To imporove utility afield.
Black sights work against aerial targets in bare sky. This is clean of sighting. Ruger 03 with Meprolight 3-dot tritium sights may be considered black sights in daylight.
Thrown water jug takes hit from Super Blackhawk Bisley Hunter .44 Mag. Sights: Redhawk red ramp front, black notch rear. Red ramp works better under these conditions than a black post or ramp.
You have about a second to gather your sights on a thrown water jug. Against a jumble of trees and terrain, black sights prove difficult. Even the red ramp on this Ruger SBH Bisley Hunter .44 Mag has its work cut out. Moreso to hit a backlit flying target.
Black irons, as original narrow target sights on .357 Maximum, deliver accuracy in sunlight and diffusing bright light. Don't adapt so well to kaleidoscopic forest of the Northeast and like environs.
Redhawk fluorescent red insert (on Ruger 03) quickly picks up moving target. Ruger paired conventional V-notch rear with a tiny bead front sight. Ruger's miniature bead is nearly impossible to “speed read,”----thus out of character with English Express sights from which it derives----the English use a fat silver or gold or ivory bead. Instant visibility=speed. The flourescent post (ramp) much better than Ruger’s shrunken bead up close. Accuracy of fluorescent ramp in Express-V falls off at about 20-25 yards. David holds post level with top of V.
Square notch made visible with yellow paint improve distance possibilities over V-notch with little loss of speed. Front sight sharp, rear notch slightly fuzzy.
Aerial jug, thrown against a background of trees, hit with light target load from Ruger 03 using fluorescent red ramp and yellow notch sights. Note brass Ronnie Wells experimental Bison finger groove grip. Cast 195 Wadcutter over 4.5/231 in .45 ACP cut clean holes through flying jug. Although screwed firm to prevent leakage, cap blew off jug from hydraulic action----WITHOUT thread damage.
-Lee
www.singleactions.com
"Chasing perfection five shots at a time"
especially when the target is black or extremely dark in color. Here are some of the sight system`s I`ve added to my hunting handguns.... The top two photos show a FA`s ramp front with white insert that I made using small files and Birchwood Casey sight paint...
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