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Actually what I find interesting is that the digital camera is a great example of what you should actually focus on when you get your sight picture established...

Maybe I'll get better at this picture posting thing soon...

Here's the setup I have...Granted I do not do much picture posting so let's see how it turns out...

The Hog Killer:



One view, probably a poor example, but in real life the sight picture is phenomenal:



And a high-elevation, maybe a better picture:



BTW, I transport the rifle with the front sight hood in place...When it is time to get to business, the hood comes off, and the light gathering capability of this sight system really stands out...

Ride 'em Cowboy!

I took a couple of the office supply "fingertips", you know the little rubber fingertip things some folks use to flip thru multiple sheets of papers...

One on the thumb, and the other on the index finger was enough to protect and ward off the wear and tear on them while loading...I flipped the index finger thing in my pocket when I went to shoot...I kept a few spares for each finger in the range bag...

To save my knuckles I have two ways to protect the top of them...One is some cheap leather gloves (the ends of the fingertips I cut off) I bought to operate the pumping station on the fire apparatus I drive, and the other is that if I do not have those well broken in gloves, is take the lever and grab it with the hand and cycle the action that way, instead of using the top of my knuckles...

One thing is for sure, you either develop strong hands and tolerant knuckles, or figure out how they used to do it back in the day before all these semi-autos and the like...

BTW, I have the Marlin 1895 .45/70 and I love that riffle to death!!! It's my hog killer!!!

The only upgrade I made was to put a set of Williams Firesights on it...Granted it is a little more expensive to shoot, but it works for me...

I think everyone should look into getting one of these types of rifles...Not only will it get you back to basics...It is something that for a while was believed (in my opinion) going to be hard to ban somewhere down the road...

And the prices are pretty reasonable to boot...Mine followed me home for about $460 NIB...The sights were about $25...Ammo runs about $29 a box of 20...At least for .45/70...