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Guys going to replace my front sighton my 39a as it is a little short for my skinner rear sight. So question is do you prefer a post front or a gold bead front?

XS

I have a Skinner brass post on my 39CL and it works well for me.You can get it in blue also if you prefer.

Yea that brass sight is what i am thinking

Neither is as good on a hunting rifle as a flat faced ivory bead and I've used them all. The only thing close to the ivory bead is a fiber optic bead. Those actually have a slight edge in visibility under low light conditions but lose some precision due to "fuzz out" or the "halo effect".

This. Second choice would be a sourdough. I scored a couple of the Marble's sourdoughs before they quit making 'em a couple years ago.

XS

+2 on the fiber optic front sight.

They sure show up good, making quick shots better.

Virgil B.

Adjustable and replaceable

alukban now that is 1 cool rifle! Got some details on it? Sights as well? Thanks

Marlin right?

Yes. It's a Marlin 1893 with a 26" octagon barrel in .30-30.

The sights are what you would normally find on a Sharps rifle. The windage adjustable front sight alone seem to be going for near $300. I got the rifle with the sights already on - lots of rust consistent with the age of the rifle so they may well be vintage and period correct.

It shoots like a laser beam with the 33" sight radius

Back when Burris was still making copies of the Redfield Sourdough brass bead, a local gunsmith equipped my Winchester Model 94 .30-30 carbine with a steel Lyman 66 receiver sight and the Sourdough copy. The result is a pretty good set of sights that I can shoot decently from a rest. I still can't shoot that muzzle-light carbine from a field position, but the sights are doing their job even if I can't yet hunt with that Model 94!

Load that 94's tube magazine full of cartridges and it's not "muzzle light". In fact, the balance of a fully loaded 94 or Marlin 336 is excellent for offhand shooting and far superior to many light barreled bolt action sporters.

The trouble with those globe front sights is that they absolutely SUCK for visibilty in a dark woods{yes, I've used them extensively}, particularly at dawn and dusk. A great sight for precision under good lighting conditions but a piss poor all-round hunting sight nonetheless.

I use a scope for dim light and that really only buys me 20 minutes, max.

When it's dark, it's dark. No iron sights are going to fix that regardless of your front sight choice.

Any front sight shows up WAY better unhooded than hooded but a hooded, black sight is the absolute worst. An unhooded fiber optic or white bead will put that globe sight to shame in low light period. I've killed a couple big truckloads of deer with iron sighted rifles and a couple more with scoped rifles. That hooded sight on your rifle would be very near useless at high noon in the thick conifer/hemlock forests I often hunt, yet I've killed deer in there right at the buzzer with fiber optic sights many times.

Yes.

I said I use a scope.

XS is my end all for levergun front sights. I can use other model rear peeps pretty interchangeably, but the white stripe front post from XS it the best for me.