Henry golden boy .22lr sights

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Just purchased my first Henry and she's a beauty!!!

Took it to the range to shoot some cans and realized it had semi-buck horn sites, not a big fan. The tiny wings don't really do anything but block your target picture and don't really help with target focus any. Don't get me wrong this rifle is awesome and very accurate, I was hitting 12 out of 15 shots at a 12x12 steel target at 220m. Just using lead 40g stuff nothing fancy. To me this rifle is perfect and don't want to change it in any way minus a better rear sight.

My question is what sight options are there?

No scopes

I'm not a fan of barrel mounted peeps as this blocks out the target picture further. I know it helps with focus!
 
I have barrel mounted Skinner peeps on mine... much better than the OEM buckhorns... some have drilled the receiver for peeps (& scopes, which you don't want)... this dilemma is one of the reasons that I prefer the Frontier model... don't get me wrong, I love the GB too...



My Frontier now wears a Leupold VX-2 2-7X33MM scope... I had no choice... my deteriorating eyesight demanded it.
 
I see you changed the front sight on both,

I'm not saying I don't like peeps I just prefer like a open flat sight with a small front post. How do find the rear peep and front glob sight? Is it very restrictive or what I'm really asking is, is it appropriate for hunting? ie, gophers/crows/small woodland creatures.

I just don't want to spend my money on trying ten different sight combinations.

Cabelas offers the marbles rear open sights
 
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I was thinking maybe a rear tang sight? I know marbles makes them, and there of the upmost quality but I'm having trouble finding them in Canada. A rear tang would just be another type of peep sight, but I find a peep closer to the eye gives a better view overall vs a barrel mounted one.

I tried the home made peep sight, just to try out the barrel band peeps before I spent $100 on one. Have to say didn't like it very much, it does give better focus for the target but block ALL of the surrounding target area off.

Made the peep by replacing the stock rear sight insert with a piece of 30-06 casing with a 3/32 hole drilled in the centre.
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If you've got fuzzy eyes like many of us a tang mount peep can sharpen up your sight picture by a lot. And for fuzzy eye'd folk it really is the optimum way to go if a scope is not an option.

Otherwise if the semi buckhorn bothers you why not simply do a little metal work on it? Hacksaw off most of the little wings and file the resulting edge down flush with the center notch corners.
 
I was thinking about just filling the horns of the buck sight off myself, but the golden boy is just so nice I couldn't bring my self to "home gunsmith" my sight.

Ended up ordering a flat top marbles sight, it's exact same rear sight with same dimensions, just no horns.

Changed the front post front 3/32 to 1/16 as well.
 
As Harry said "a man's gotta know his limits...". :D If you didn't trust yourself to do a nice enough job then you did the right thing by ordering up a new sight. And this way you keep the stock sights unmolested for posterity.
 
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