Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Savage Collectors Difference between Lyman 1A and 30 1/2 tang sight

I have 30½'s on all of my 1899H's. The least I paid was $150 on eBay last winter. The most was whatever a mint Redfield Olympic rear sight and International front sight was worth that I traded for one 8 years ago- somewhere north of $250. Seems like every time I ran into Ken Bean at a gun show, I was going home with a 30½ in my pocket. Putting those sights on those rifles cost enough that I could buy a darned nice 99.