Waidmannsheil.
I'm posting this here, rather than over in the Schuetzen forum, thinking it may get more comments here.
One of the gunwriters at Shooting Times magazine has written a couple of small articles about German target rifles recently. In his latest, he writes:
"...old-time German marksmen used their sights differently than we do. On a Schuetzen rifle, the main sights are the mid-barrel open sight and the front sight. The rifle is sighted-in with these, then the tang (or diopter) sight is lined up with them. Its only purpose is to sharpen the sight picture using the mid-barrel sight. According to those who have studied German methods, the diopter and front sight were almost never used without the mid-barrel sight. whereas some competitions forbade the use of the diopter."
That's very interesting, but is news to me!
Then again, I grew up being schooled by my Dad on the use of peep or aperture sights based on his interests in Harry Pope and a wide variety of U.S.-made single shot rifles.
Both my Haenel KK Sport (.22 LR) and my Buchel Meister Schuetzen (8.15x46mm) rifles have tang/diopter sights only. Neither came with any mid-barrel sights -- and I never missed having them!
And if they did come with them -- I'd bet I would have removed the mid-barrel sight immediately without thinking about it.
So now I'm curious what others have to say about the use of tang sights with mid-barrel sights, thanks.
Old No7
I'm posting this here, rather than over in the Schuetzen forum, thinking it may get more comments here.
One of the gunwriters at Shooting Times magazine has written a couple of small articles about German target rifles recently. In his latest, he writes:
"...old-time German marksmen used their sights differently than we do. On a Schuetzen rifle, the main sights are the mid-barrel open sight and the front sight. The rifle is sighted-in with these, then the tang (or diopter) sight is lined up with them. Its only purpose is to sharpen the sight picture using the mid-barrel sight. According to those who have studied German methods, the diopter and front sight were almost never used without the mid-barrel sight. whereas some competitions forbade the use of the diopter."
That's very interesting, but is news to me!
Then again, I grew up being schooled by my Dad on the use of peep or aperture sights based on his interests in Harry Pope and a wide variety of U.S.-made single shot rifles.
Both my Haenel KK Sport (.22 LR) and my Buchel Meister Schuetzen (8.15x46mm) rifles have tang/diopter sights only. Neither came with any mid-barrel sights -- and I never missed having them!
And if they did come with them -- I'd bet I would have removed the mid-barrel sight immediately without thinking about it.
So now I'm curious what others have to say about the use of tang sights with mid-barrel sights, thanks.
Old No7
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