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Much of the hunting I do involves big game hounds so
I prefer open iron sighted rifles for
the moving targets they present.
After missing several advantage shots at the beginning of the 2000
hunting season, I took a close look at what was available in more
highly visible open sights for rifles.
Fiber optics were not new to me,
I had previously used several different styles of Fiber Optic
Sight Systems on a variety of handguns. I found them to be a major
improvement over the older style sighting system.
I started with my Remington Rifles, ordering Williams Fiber
Optic Systems. The sight
pictures were great, but, the front sights were too fragile and would
break easily. So I
contacted Millett Sights and ordered their Blanked Rifle Front Sights
and built my own fronts.
I am happy to report they
have withstood three and one-half Seasons and are still just fine.
Where I could not locate rear Fiber Optics I modified those
sights also to accept small Fiber Optic pins to create a bright 3-dot
Sight System; for both rifles and handguns.
Currently, almost every member of my hunt club is using these
 type sights from 20 year olds to 60 year olds.
Now
I make no qualms about it. I am a "Carnivore". I enjoy
properly prepared low-cholesterol deer meat and I like having my
freezers filled. I believe it was the Iroquois who first came up with
the word "Vegetarian". I believe it means "he who
can't hunt". I haven’t missed any
make-able shots since the change of these
sights. Please take the
time to look over the pictures of these sight systems on some of my personal
firearms.
PRICING AND IN STOCK AVAILABILITY,
please call, these
sights are custom made and vary by the gun. We need time to order a
specific mount. Almost any firearm can be
converted to these high visibility sights. Pistols, rifles, and
shotguns. Left: Obviously this is the site
picture you never wish to see, just a reminder about gun safety. Prime
Rule: Consider every weapon loaded.
Now Bob likes to hunt and has a wall full of brush guns all equipped
with the same sights.
He likes the 44 Caliber Marlin, the Remington 742 in /06 and the bad
weather guns, the SKS's, he custom builds.
They all share one thing in common. The sights. To the right, is
the Remington in what we call FULL DEER ON THE PLATE mode. No scope, just the Fiber Optics with dual
color green bordering red. It's also great for a moving targets as
this array helps you lead.
Below: The SKS front sight has been opened up (alas aka AK)
style and the front
 pin
exchanged for one of Bob's custom HD front sites. Very fast and
picks up the target well. You can see more of this conversion on the
SKS page. He also modified the rear site setup on the SKS with
two green pins. After flat and dull chroming the gun about the
color of this page, it's a great brush gun ready for all weather and
especially in bad weather the sights really work.
In clay pigeon competition those nice fellows with the
very expensive shotguns have used some form of illuminated front site
for years. Whether it was a painted ball front pip or a fiber
optic, they knew it was an advantage when shooting against a bright or
flat background. CONTRAST!
And they were shooting small flat cylindrical objects and the good
ones can clobber 100 clay birds in a row. We are amazed it took
that long for the rest of the shooting sports to catch up with them
with that simple and accurate little modification. The fiber optic
front site is as much of an advantage to the serious sport or
competitive shooter using iron sights as the scope is to the long
range shooter.
IPSC Steel
Plates - Shotgun
In shot gunning when the targets are steel plates and the auto's are
really fast, sight acquisition is really critical because we are
talking in some cases multiple targets and the winner is a hit,
knockdown and SPEED.
In fact SPEED is really the game winner. If everyone took their time
and just knocked the steel down, this wouldn't be a sport. So moving
the eyes to pick up the next plate is the trick and seeing the target
picture is step one, react, pull and continue. Add anything else
to the equation and you lose.
This where the Fiber optics really shine. (no pun intended) The
Winchester semi-Auto shown here is one of the nicest plate guns around
and was custom built for one of the fastest shooters around.
It also shows that many of the things we do to make firearms better
are common sense, and not limited to a particular brand or model and
what we build is reliable, and effective. That's the major difference
between a parts changer and a gunsmith. |
build.
Read on, some available on the "ready to wear" market are flimsy especially
for a hunter.