I recently put a Marbles Bullseye sight on my Henry and spent a little time last Saturday and after work today trying it out. I was finding the front hooded and rear buckhorn factory sights a little hard to use (my eyes are pushing 50 years old...) The hood tended to shadow the front post too much for me, made worse by the range's backstop being in shade in the afternoon and my targets being black. I decided to remove the front hood and put a Marbles Bullseye on the rear. I like it. It's easy to align the rear sight's inner ring over the target, using the front to zero in.
Saturday's time was divided between adjusting drift on the Henry and my wife playing with her 10/22. We're both new to shooting, plus it was hot out, so we did things a bit slow. I got the drift set, just had to adjust elevation. That's when I learned I should have gone with the shorter model (Marbles offers 2 lengths). The elevator runs into the receiver when I notch it up, so I had to bend the little finger tab up a bit... I'll probably cut it off and bend the tip to make it look cleaner. Below is how it looks at the moment.
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Today was to try the sights, using the bench to check elevation. I then went freehand, shooting CCI SV at a typical sight-in target. Three rounds of 10 shots each, marking them after each round. I find I'm having trouble using both eyes, the sights just disappear. So for now it's only one eye open. The last round was seeing how quickly I could get back on target vs slow, deliberate aiming after each cycling of the action. I'm happy with my results so far.
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PS- I've also stripped the poly off of the stock and stripped the receiver cover. It just looks and feels better now. There's pics of the results in the Photo thread.
