In the past I glued a skinny piece of beer can onto milsurp front sight blades and cut them back until my shots were hitting "in the zone", then secured taller front sights that matched the new "required" height - once by buying one from Numrich (and I have no idea if they still sell them), and once by filing a new sight out of a small chunk of steel (it's not as hard as you might think). I had no welder, or the skill to use one, or I would've simply extended the height of the original ones.
What the heck were military minds thinking when they instituted the concept of "battle sights" that focused hits on a minimum 500 yards away leaving us moderns to have to deal with high points of impact at 50-150 yards? (Yeah, I know why, but still....) Not much chance of me needing to plop bullets into massed Hun formations a quarter mile away.
