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I'm all for whatever works for each individual set of peepers but those Ghost Ring front blades look like a 2x4 to me ! Had a set of them on my triple four but now it wears the Williams as do all my other lever guns and back to a gold bead..

I suppose it's all about what you get used to. I got well used to using the peep and post front on the M16 service rifle in the military and learned to be accurate with it. A couple of years ago. I decided to give the bead front sight another chance and tried honestly for a while to use it. My shooting was pretty sloppy and I thought it was just my eyes going south. I was discussing sights on this forum and Pappy348 mentioned that the post was much more precise than the bead. I put the X/S white stripe posts back on my rifles and damned but my accuracy tightened back up. Those post fronts will stay where they are at this time. YMMV RJ

Nice!

I had 20-10 vision, when it degraded to 20-15 I got alarmed, could tell significant difference. I have now dropped to 20-20 with associated close up problems, have to use readers, DUMN!! I can no longer utilize traditional iron sights however have become dependent upon either Lyman or Marbles tang sights on the early lever actions, love them! The only thing that can beat them is a Climbin Lyman 21 Receiver sight or a bolt peep sight.

Sorry fella, as much as I like my XS, they are not visible in “all light conditions”, even a shaded area in daylight can throw it off a bit.

Nothing is perfect. If X/S sights were perfect, I would not have red dots and scopes. For Iron sight use the X/S sights work better for me than anything else. RJ

I've got the same set of problems as do you Willys. Before eye surgery, I had 20/15 vision. But I had to learned to use very mild reading glasses so I could see the open sights of my handguns more clearly.
Now, my vision is 20/20 in my right eye, and 20/30 in my left. Still use the mild readers, they allow for more depth of focus, when I target shoot my handguns.
My iron sighted rifles are a different matter. I have a 16 inch barreled M1A, a Socom 16, with a large front blade, and a very large rear ghost ring. Even at 50 yds., it groups 2-3X larger than it does with a scout scope off of a bench.
I've got a pre-64 M70 that groups 2 inches plus at times at 100 yds. from a bench.
Sounds bad, right ?
But, take it off the bench, and shoot it from field positions, the groups are very close to what my scope sighted guns do, particularly when I'm in a hurry. The M70 has a gold bead. At 100 yds., it covers about 6 inches. I last time I shot it, at 200 yds. 4 of the five rounds landed in a 4 inch group, one additional round opened the group to 7 inches. That's well within the kill zone of a buck. At 100 yds, I usually do about 6-8 inches, but that is because all I'm trying to do is stay in 12 inches. At 200 yds, I was shooting from a sitting position with a sling. But still just trying to stay inside of 12 inches and doing it in a hurry.
I need to take the scope off of my M1A Squad Scout and see what the simple post does when in a hurry. So, I'm still learning about this stuff. Yes, at 76, I'm still learning how to shoot.....
I suggest you put a peep sight on your 94 and sight it in. Then try it from your field positions like you would when shooting a buck. You might find it works rather well. E

Nice looking setup.

I will give a set of X/S ghost rings on my 32 spl a try!

Will try painting a white line on my front sight to see how I like that too.