Just in..........Chiappa 1886 , 45/70 16.5 inch LA skinner.....PICS
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350tracker
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Interlake Manitoba
Very nice rifle. Are you using the iron sights ? Must be a kicker !!!
freddyfour
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Brant County, Ontario
Gorgeous looking rifle!
- Location
- Somewhere on the Hudson Bay Coast
I am curious about the aperture sight mounted at the midpoint on the barrel. Usually a peep sight/ghost ring is mounted as near the eye as possible so that it need only be looked through in order to confirm a repeatable cheek weld. Placing the aperture midway on the barrel I think would complicate sighting, in that, as with open sights, your focus must adjust between 3 different focal planes, rear sight, front sight, and target rather than just 2, front sight and target. I am confident that provided sufficient light, the rifle would shoot better with this arrangement than with open sights. That said, some older shooters who expressed a difficulty sighting with conventional pistol sights have claimed an advantage by mounting a rear aperture sight on their handguns, and an aperture mounted at the midway point along a rifle barrel might well replicate that situation. So I'm looking forward to your first range report, and your own assessment of the mid-mounted aperture under actual shooting conditions.
Falconflyer
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Very nice!
I have the Kodiak model and it's a beast of a gun!
I have the Kodiak model and it's a beast of a gun!
just on the side, like a marlin
leveractionjunkie
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- Kamloops, BC
Good looking ‘86! Let us know how it shoots.
That is one slick looking rifle! I have had a hankering for a nice lever 45-70 for some time now, had my eye on a couple Marlins, but this is a great looking rifle too, looking forward to hearing your range reports.
BigUglyMan
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- New Scotland
I find it too short and out of proportion. And that aperture on the barrel mystifies me. The wood looks nice though.
I've had a couple of levers and singleshots with an aperture way out there on the barrel as well. Not quite as fast as one mounted next to your eye, but the principal is the same, i.e. you just focus on the front without consciously trying to center it in the aperture. The rear-mounted aperture is also better when the light is marginal, but barrel-mounted is still a very viable option. I find either set-up much more accurate than any open sights.
The rearward position gives you the choice of using as a ghost-ring or with a smaller, more target-oriented sight; the front barrel-mounted position, for me at least, works only with a large aperture.
The rearward position gives you the choice of using as a ghost-ring or with a smaller, more target-oriented sight; the front barrel-mounted position, for me at least, works only with a large aperture.
