Post by MLB on Aug 17, 2010 9:10:38 GMT -5
Last weekend I took the family to a property that we own in the "southern tier" of NY; that is, in the south western part of the state. They like to walk through the woods there, harass the beavers by opening up their dams, and this trip, stay overnight in the tent.
I hitched up the trailer and loaded a bit of hardwood for our winter fires in the fireplace. There's always a downed maple there due to those pesky brown bags of swamp making fur. We brought a pair of rifles along too for a bit of plinking too.
My son likes both of the .22 rifles. The old JC Higgins bolt action is the easiest for him to use. It has open sights and he doesn't have any difficulty putting down tin cans within a couple of shots. The Henry lever action interests him mainly because of the unique action I think, but we noticed a major drawback of the Marble Tang sight I have installed on it.
When it gets to be near dusk, you can't see crap thorough the "target" sized aperture I have installed. The little stinker was smoking me with his open sights. I hadn't brought along the other (larger) aperture sight to screw in, and had removed the rear stock sight when installing the Marble (it was in the way), so no help there.
I'll have to remember to bring along the other sight if there's a chance of evening shooting. There's a good overview of the tang sight at Gunblast:
www.gunblast.com/Marbles.htm
I hitched up the trailer and loaded a bit of hardwood for our winter fires in the fireplace. There's always a downed maple there due to those pesky brown bags of swamp making fur. We brought a pair of rifles along too for a bit of plinking too.
My son likes both of the .22 rifles. The old JC Higgins bolt action is the easiest for him to use. It has open sights and he doesn't have any difficulty putting down tin cans within a couple of shots. The Henry lever action interests him mainly because of the unique action I think, but we noticed a major drawback of the Marble Tang sight I have installed on it.
When it gets to be near dusk, you can't see crap thorough the "target" sized aperture I have installed. The little stinker was smoking me with his open sights. I hadn't brought along the other (larger) aperture sight to screw in, and had removed the rear stock sight when installing the Marble (it was in the way), so no help there.
I'll have to remember to bring along the other sight if there's a chance of evening shooting. There's a good overview of the tang sight at Gunblast:
www.gunblast.com/Marbles.htm
