Tang sight on '94 Carbine with pics up

[tokguy]

I've an old .94 Carbine in 38-55 with a sewer pipe bore. It shoots surprisingly well with PL and a fast powder like Unique...seems to bump up nicely into the remnants of the rifling as long as one doesn't push the bullet too hard.
Cleaning out a Gifted box of odds & ends; surprise! A Marbles No. W 1 tang sight. I've never punched paper with this carbine, shot 6-7 deer with it though.
Is a tang sight a waste of time on a carbine?
Thoughts?

17 factory rounds...cool, but a total waste in my tired old carbine. It'd likely 'Keyhole' the bullets...factory rounds don't work too well in the Ole girl.

A poorly treated flip aperture of no known manufacture...it donated the insert though.
Still need the front screw though...but for freebie? Pretty sweet.

 

[Kilo Charlie]

In my opinion, faster target acquisition and an extra 8 inches sight radius is a good thing.
Every 94 I've ever used got either a tang peep or a receiver peep. I find them much easier to shoot that way.

 

[Matt74]

I always shot far better with any tang sight I put on an 1894 I had. I’d try it out.
Matt

 

[fingers284]

Lots of things to consider here, first and foremost, is the sight for a 94 win or a 92 or a Marlin or Ballard among a lot of others that had Marbles shipped with them from the factory...they all have different 'tang angles" (even a 92 rifle configuration has a different tang angle than a carbine configuration). Some of them are 'close enough" that the oblong sight halo/picture doesn't mater a whole lot but with some, the sight picture is a distinct egg shape with very blurry edges. In a perfect world your sight will sit on the tang and the barrel/staff will be absolutely at a 90 deg. angle...even a 2 deg. variance will blur the edges.

The second issue is that those early Marbles were able to be ordered with a myriad of aperture openings, what size of aperture does your sight have. Bulls-eye target shooters used very much smaller aperture openings than some one using it for a hunting gun or military use. I have tried to use "bulls-eye target sized apertures for hunting and soon realized that target acquisition in grass or leaves/branch's background was next to impossible, even a close range 20 yrd. gopher shooting with an Anchutz target sight. If you are going to "hunt" this rifle as you mentioned I would suggest a very "open" aperture ( compare it to some of your milsurp battle rifles you write about, the modern offerings such as Skinner have an aperture you can almost poke a finger thru).

I think modern Marbles can be ordered with small, med. or large apertures (whereas the turn of the century early catalogues listed a bunch of different decimal sized apertures ) and I thing they still use the same thread pitch so modern can be used in old or vice-versa.

 

[tokguy]

Well, it says for a 94 right on the box.
And I was lucky in that there was another peep in the mix...poor treated but with a functional aperture.
I'll run up a couple snaps for veiwing...pictures are always nice.
And thanks for the input all, much appreciated.