smoothbore rear sight pics

would like to see picture of you smoothbore rear sight I am going to install rear sights on mine and would like to see a few example. Thank you

I made this sight for my fowler out of a piece of angle iron.

Here's the only one I have.





Spence

A notch in the barrel at the breech works fine. Also a large tang screw head will work fine as well.

An option using the tang screw would be to remove it place a piece of hose sliced maybe a 1/4 in thick under it so it would raise the notch up till you found an optimum height. No marring and one could experiment.

My rear sight is a simple "L" shaped piece of .010 brass with a notch cut in it.

It is super glued to the barrel because I need to remove it for the smoothbore competitions.

Because of the stock drop and front sight height it only sits about 1/8th inch above the barrel where the octagon meets the round part of the barrel.

It does work better than just a groove in the tang.

I was going to put a permanent sight on it and shoot the sighed smoothbore matches but I would be up against smooth rifles with set triggers and cap locks.

Thanks for the pictures and the sugestions .

I've used a simple pistol rear sight from Muzzeloader's Builders Supply. It fits the narrow flats of a smoothbore as they transition to round, look at Spences' sight. It is a bit wide but a pistol sight is narrower so it fits the tapered flats better. Something to think about.

Good idea. Thanks

Well mine isn't "authentic" and it's a temporary one that goes on at the tang-bolt, because sometimes folks compete in matches where the rear sight is verboten, or the actual gun didn't have a rear sight such as my LLP Bess...yet when hunting it does help quite a bit.

3/4" Satin Brass Corner Brace

IF the existing hole works well for the application, fine, or one can cut and file the raised portion into a rear sight shape.



LD

Eric Krewson said:

I made this sight for my fowler out of a piece of angle iron.

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vary nice