Night sights for leverguns

[rjohns94]

Ranger point precision is now offering night sights for leverguns. Just saying...

[Nate Kiowa Jones]

Ranger point precision is now offering night sights for leverguns. Just saying...

Well, sorta.
From the website;

Night sights option has glow in the dark paint that can be illuminated with a flashlight and stay glowing for 1-3 hours

I was hoping it was a tritium.

[rjohns94]

Yeah I was too

[Malamute]

Ive thought about ways to do it. A folding front night sight similar to the Valmets and Galils could be incorporated into a front ramp sight, or send a blade to a maker and have them make one, or,... use a pre-made pistol front dovetail sight and adapt it to a rifle front ramp. An AK or AR-16 front may be adaptable to a ramp somehow. Ive thought of taking cut off AR front sight bases and machining them to fit a Winchester barrel so it would be the correct height. Youd had some adjustment, and have ready made night sights available. Would have to shorten the insides with the spring and plunger, and bottom of the sight screw, but doesn't look insurmountable. I have several bases to start with if I can find someone to do the machine work. Want to do one or two on bolt guns also. They would require less shortening.

A rear could be a simple folding barrel sight with tritium capsules on the sides. May be ways to incorporate them into a peep aperture also, they do it for m-16s and others.

I plan to do some at some point.

[marlinman93]

Night sights on a lever gun just ain't right.

[AJMD429]

I shot this group at 50 yards in pitch darkness....



With this 357 Mag Marlin setup.....

http://www.levergunscommunity.com/viewt ... =1&t=23531

My second one - .45 Colt Rossi 1892 - is more compact but uses the same components:

http://www.levergunscommunity.com/viewt ... =1&t=31062



The third one - .44 Mag (at first, but now a 45 Colt) Marlin 1894 - is a bigger levergun but pretty streamlined:

http://www.levergunscommunity.com/viewt ... =1&t=40663


Not as compact as iron sights, and not 'mil-spec' (or even 'tactical' ), but very practical...!

[MrMurphy]

XS makes tritium sights for leverguns.


The charge-with-flashlight stuff is common in Europe, tritium is more heavily restricted there. Either Benelli or Beretta I think calls their version "Superluminova" or something close to that.

[Nate Kiowa Jones]

XS makes tritium sights for leverguns.


The charge-with-flashlight stuff is common in Europe, tritium is more heavily restricted there. Either Benelli or Beretta I think calls their version "Superluminova" or something close to that.

I can't find those XS tritiums for leverguns. Do you have a link or part#?

[Merle]

I solved two problems - old eyes that don't see well at any light level and darkness. I installed Bushnell scopes with electro dot reticles. 1-4X on my Marlin 44 mag and 1.5 - 6X on my Marlin 32 Special & 35 Remington. Now I'm good up close in dim light or far away in good light.

[MrMurphy]

At the very least they've got the white stripe front sight. I know they offered a tritium version in the past, I worked with an ex XS guy.

[Malamute]

I painted the front sight of my Browning 92 bright orange, it helps quite a lot in poor light at dusk, vastly better than fiber optics that Ive seen.

It does have a light also, so I can shoot in dark if need be.