For serious match target use we recommend the Soule type tang sight and the code USA426 hooded front sight which has both a spirit level and windage adjustment feature. Tang Sights, Vernier, Sporting, & Target. The sight is attached to the tang: a steel plate extending toward the butt from a rifle receiver for attachment of the receiver to a wooden buttstock. View Cart / Checkout Wish List Login ... RS-CREED-BASE Sharps Tang Sight Base, for 3" & 5" Creedmoor tang sights, Sharps 2.260" hole spacing, for antique, Axtell, Shiloh, C. Sharps, Pedersoli, ArmiSport, Arcadia, and other correct replica Sharps rifles. The base of the tang sight comes with two holes; one will align with the original hole in the tang that holds the butt stock in place.
Other more conventional "vernier adjustable elevation" tang sights provide accuracy and quality precision which is suitable for hunting and target work out to long ranges. I've got a Lyman#2 sight on my own `73(s) -- and like my M1A and Garand, snap shots with the aperture are both fast & natural. It's nothing other than an old-school peep, the simple aperture that works all these tricks by taking advantage of your eye's desire to find the center of a circle. This super sight exists, though it has been nudged aside lately by red-dots, reflex sights, and low-mag riflescopes. The Taurus folks told me that one does not need to remove the standard rear sight to use the tang sight. Pedersoli produces two grades of tang sights...the 'good ones' and the 'give away sights'. I installed the peep sight and new, longer tang screw with a piece of leather used as a shim.
I wish I had a picture to show you, but basically just envision looking through a circle and then … I use a Mid-range MVA soule Tang sight on my .45-70 gov't with a 500 gr.
When I installed it as directed (behind the hammer using the factory designated screw holes), however, the rear sight is fully in the tang sight's sight line no matter how high I raise the tang sight. When you buy a 'rifle package' that includes a tang sight, it will (usually) be one of the 'give away' variety. A tang sight is the rear sight of a pair of iron sights used to aim or align a rifle so the bullet fired will hit the target. Not for I.A.B., Pedretti, SILE, or Marcheno rifles.. Price: $35.99. First, I made sure my rifle was unloaded, then I removed the tang screw. To then use the tang sight while still having the barrel sight ahead of it would also block out the bottom half of your sight picture. R. P. or Starline Brass Nickel coated and Fedral or CCI LR Primers. I will have to drill and tap the tang for the front hole in the sight base. bullet, Goex 2F 68 grs.