Took my 20/26 out to the range on Saturday to see what it could do.

I loaded 16g of SR4759 and 311041 cast bullets. These had to extend well below the neck of the 300 savage. Didn't shoot so good (bottom left).

I also loaded 35g of 4064 and a Speer 150g spitzer. These shot good at 50 yards and well enough at 100 considering my poor aim. Ignore where I wrote 303 savage on one of the targets, it's a habit for me.

Now the problem, I know my rear sights have to be original (its a Lyman 54), but I'm wondering about my front sight. I spent more bullets and time trying to find the target, I had to keep raising the sights to get it on the paper even at 50 yards. At 100 yards the trajectory is flat so I didn't need to change much. I don't have much rear sight adjustment left.

My guess is the front sight is not original and that it should be a lot shorter sight (see picture below). From the top edge of the ramp to the top of the brass bead is 0.265". Anyone have a 20/26 front sight that they could measure for me?

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