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So I can shoot my vintage Winchester more effectively I installed a gold bead front with a later style Winchester buckhorn rear.

While I am not a fan of buchkorns the later style Winchester ones are not too bad as the entire blade is one piece and is much thicker than most allowing for a much improved sight picture over a thin, flat blade.

Well, the problem is the blade is secured by two set screws that friction fit on the upturned edges of the rear of the tang and sometimes these do not fit too well and become loose.

So I thought about it and decided to shape a thin piece of steel into a bracket that will clamp onto the tang and hold it securely.

Well, in a couple hours I got it drilled, shaped to fit the outline of the blade, oil blackened it and it works well !

Well that should work.

RP

Well that should work.

It does quite well!
Kind of hard to see but it now 'clamps' the sight to the upturned tang.
The same thing could have been accomplished with a couple tiny washers as well as long as they made contact with the tang but I didn't have any washers this small and I like the challenge of fixing something.

Love what you've done. That kind of improvising is very much in the cowboy tradition. Good work.

I was helped along by the fact I had some .020 spring steel washers that were already close to the dimensions I needed for this and the hole in the middle was just the right radius.
The rest was careful grinding and shaping to fit in good 'ol 'home made' tradition!
It didn't oil blacken as well as I like but good enough to blend in and not be shiny. The hardness of the steel had something to do with this.

Good idea.