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Those are pretty nice rifles. I've been around a couple of them that shot very well.
If you're shooting smokeless keep it in the "trapdoor" load area, the rifle will treat your shoulder well, and should give you some braggin sized groups.
Looking forward to hearing how you get along with it when it arrives.

I'm curious about the tang and tang sight. Does it have a long tang like the BPCR models?

Paul

Paul, yes they do, and they come with a Marbles tang sight already mounted. They have a Marbles brass bead on the front, but that's pretty easy to pop out and mount a lyman 17 or similar.

Sounds like a well thought out and practical model.

I'd like to see a pic.

Paul

Go to Gallery of guns dot com and in the gungenie thingy just punch in 1885 in the model and they'll all come up.
There's also a couple listed on the Guns international site , under the Winchester 1885 listings, and I believe there's a couple on Cabela's gun library. Also quite a few on Gunbroker, but not much for pictures with most of those..

As an aside one of the SDokata guys we shoot with,(the same one that uses one of those in 38-55 at Alliance) took one of those installed a crossno 22 liner, swapped the 45-70 ejector for a 3006 and uses it as a dedicated 22,with that ejector he doesn't need the screwdriver...

OK guys, it arrived. Pretty looking rifle. straight grained walnut but had a little figure to it. Stupid question time. The gun came with a tang sight and a normal rear sight. How do you use the tang sight with the other sight on it? I was hoping the rear sight would fold down, but that would make to much sense.

Best to just remove which ever sight you're not wanting to use.
If you decide to put the removed sight back on and use the other after you've shot it a while. Leave the first sight on the gun and use it to "bore" sight the sight being installed. That way you get very close on your windage and elevation settings without alot of guess and by golly.

Damn, sure would have made things easy for the rear sight to fold down. That way you could use both.

I left both sights on my Low Wall. And I use both sights on my Low Wall. I use the barrel sights on shots out to about 75 yards. And I use the barrel sights in lower light conditions for the same range in the woods.

Then for shots at 100 yards+ I use the marbles tang sight. On my rifle I get minimal interference from the barrel sight at 100 yards. At 150 yards the barrel sight is completely out of the picture. However I did add a slightly taller white front bead sight. And this makes my barrel sight all the way down to get sighted in at 50-75 yards.

I think you may have to experiment with the front sight height if you want to use both. I must have got lucky because I got the right front sight height the first time. Tom.

Just change the front bead. Tom.