Skinner Peep Recommendation

[Smoke4320]

Hey John -

Welcome to the forum and congrats on the brass Big Boy 44 - great rifle. I have brass Big Boys in 357 and 44(carbine). I also have the same problems with the buckhorn sights that you have due to old eyes. I put Skinner "Big Boy Express" rear peep sights on both of my rifles. The skinner sights are a huge improvement over the stock sights and really help us "old eye guys" to shoot these rifles without a scope. The other thing that helped was swapping out the front brass bead sight with a Lyman #17A front globe sight. I think this combo is the best iron sight set-up possible for a Henry and really makes them more enjoyable to shoot for us old guys...

do you know which height front you went with lie .404 .584 ect .. and what is your zero distance with that sight ?

thanks

[tractortad]

Hey John -

Welcome to the forum and congrats on the brass Big Boy 44 - great rifle. I have brass Big Boys in 357 and 44(carbine). I also have the same problems with the buckhorn sights that you have due to old eyes. I put Skinner "Big Boy Express" rear peep sights on both of my rifles. The skinner sights are a huge improvement over the stock sights and really help us "old eye guys" to shoot these rifles without a scope. The other thing that helped was swapping out the front brass bead sight with a Lyman #17A front globe sight. I think this combo is the best iron sight set-up possible for a Henry and really makes them more enjoyable to shoot for us old guys...

do you know which height front you went with lie .404 .584 ect .. and what is your zero distance with that sight ?

thanks

I used .494" AML 17A Lyman Globes on both my 357 and 44 brass Big Boys. They were about $38 apiece from Midway. Both rifles were sighted in at 25 yds using factory magnum loads - 240g Federal JHP for the 44 and 158g Federal JSP for the 357. Additionally, I also installed Lee Shaver inserts in the Lyman Globes - they are much finer than the inserts that came with the Lymans and improved the sight picture (for me anyway). Hope this helps - you also may want to check a previous post by Squatch called "The Process" - that's where I got my info from when I initially changed out my sights...

[Smoke4320]

Thanks for that detailed post
Really helps to get the right one the first time

[Bugs]

thanks

Hope this helps - you also may want to check a previous post by Squatch called "The Process" - that's where I got my info from when I initially changed out my sights...

Do you have a link to that post? I searched for it but had no luck.

[Smoke4320]

Well I found the original post but all the pics are gone

http://henryrifleforums.com/viewtopic.p ... cess#p9585

[Bugs]

Thanks.

[Smoke4320]

Henry 45 colt carbine will be here Monday, the Lyman globe and RCBS Cowboy dies on Wednesday, the skinner express rear sight and
NOE Mold Friday
By next Sunday I will be ready for the T-Rex hunt !!!

This saving money casting is getting expensive

[Smoke4320]

well either the PO or midway lost the shipment of the dies and Globe sight .. so that will be days to resolve

decided I would try some NOE 453-230 HP bullets while I am waiting on the sights and the NOE 255HP mold
had an old set of RCBS dies that flare while depriming/resizing (these date way way back) loaded up some 230HP 50/50 lead PCed Jet Black
one batch 8.0 grns Unique chronoed 1047 FPS
one batch 8.5 grns chronoed 1102 FPS
and one batch 9.o grns unique chronoed 1185 FPS... NO signs of overpressue at all. smooth shooting and very very little recoil
all recorded on a lab radar ..
I did this at 8AM this morning under less than ideal cloudy skys ( low light) and 15+ MPH winds .. Groups were promising
The Henry was smooth feeding and very accurate for the conditions at 50 yds

when the New RCBS cowboy dies arrive and I can get to some load development do believe we will have one sweet accurate carbine