IMI Timberwolf .357 pump, red dot or irons?

Tough to say, up until a couple of years ago I could shoot buckhorn type open sights allright, but a peep mounted close to the eye is infinitely better for me.

These days my eyesight just isn't what it used to be and I'm borderline needing a prescription, I really gravitate towards a quality red-dot.
In my case I find my eyes just don't fatigue after a couple hundred rounds like they do with irons and I am just able to hit better.

Heading into the mountains is a different story, Skinner peep and a fiber optic front.

I dig that Timberwolf BTW...and I think a Micro on their would be the tits.
 
You may be running into the same situation I did with my Rossi '92 that I use for close in cowboy action shooting. The sights are shaped and set up for out around 100 yards. Closer in and they shoot stupidly high just like your gun is doing.

On handguns the recoil cycle with lighter bullets really shows up as elevated hits like you're showing. But with my lever rifle it doesn't seem to matter if I'm shooting heavy or light .38Spl rounds or even .357Magnums. The rifle simply seems to recoil differently than a handgun. So any amount of change I need to make for going from .38's to .357Mags is minimal at best.

So all in all you may just find that you either need to deepen the rear notch or go with a taller front sight. With my Cowboy Rossi I sort of did a bit of a switch around. I deepened the notch but also opened it up a little with a jeweler's needle file so it now looks like a "C" with the opening to the sky. In use I treat it as a ghost ring or peep sight and I get great hits out to around 50 yards. For 100 yards I set the front bead in the points of the "C". For out at 200 I set the base flair up so it "nestles" into the "C" and put the bead on the target.

But of course that's to compensate for the rather rainbow like arc of the .38Spl rounds. If I were shooting Magnum I'd still be using my opened up and downward "C" shape but I'd need to learn the correct hold geometries for the different distances.
 
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