Are Skinner Sights capable of good accuracy? Can the average shooter benefit from an aperture sight like those from Skinner Sights, XS Sights, Lyman, or Williams. In this video I will use my old eyes and my Marlin 39A with Skinner sights to answer those questions.
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I installed a Skinner Express on my Henry H010 in combination with my stock front. The quality of their peer sight is beyond reproach, and it installed easily. I took it to the range and the gun was shooting 4-5 inches high at 50 yards. Grouping was great, it was shooting to the centre of the target, just 4-5 inches high. For anyone with an H010 that wants to install a Skinner Express, do yourself a favour and order a taller front sight while you're at it.
Great video. I just installed ghost sights on my old Marlin 336 30-30. I’m looking forward to taking it to the range😃
First time I used aperture sights was on an M1 Carbine. I've been a fan of that kind of sight ever since. And the M1 Carbine is one of my favorite rifles to shoot. I put Skinner sights on my Marlin 1894c 357 mag. and I couldn't be happier with the results. I just turned 60 and with the aperture sights I'm shooting as well as I did when I was in me 30's.
Is that the stock front sight or did you have to install a higher one?
aperture sights really are the best all-purpose arrangement. Nobody could rightly say they're the absolute king of any field, but as far as irons go you can do much worse than fitting a good aperture rear and illuminated front post. As classic as buckhorns are, there's no real place for them on modern lever guns anymore, not when the only advantage they offer is easily countered by having a two-position 50-150 or 100-200 aperture installed (and that's not even getting into the options available for dialed apertures)
Sorta the same deal with saddle rings these days, but my anachronistic Rossi 92 has both types of rings. Hey, nobody ever said I can't have useful sights and saddle storage.
How come Louisiana and no accent? Native West Coast'r?
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– I can tell you're a sharp cookie from a few seconds into your video. Not butterin' your bread, just an observation w/appreciation.
No need to centre the post in the middle of the aperture deliberately, the eye automatically centres it.From South Africa.
This is a fantastic summary of shooting with peep sights. Good shooting!
So many of us who enjoy caring for, altering and improving our guns and ammo have this gentlemans engineering bent don't we?
I recently acquired a Marlin 39A with skinner sights. Took it down to the range to check it out. First time shooting it, an inch high at 25 yds, right on at 100 yards, and holding about 6 inches high at 175 yds, took out the bowling pins. I could not be more pleased. It is a 1954 year rifle. You are a lot older than me, I am only 69 but same issue with the eyes!
Great sights no doubt.
Unfortunately the tapped
Holes in the receiver were
Out of alignment with the bore.
No scope, peeps, or red
Dots can fix that. Boo
Marlin 1894.
I love skinner sights, I’ve always had a horrible time with regular open sights. skinner sights allowed me to shoot easily with them
Is it just me….or did your shoot the first grouping to the left of the center of the target when you were “centering” your sights……then shot dead center perfect when you moved them .20” Thousand to the right?
Made in my hometown. I've done construction work for the company. The owners a great guy. Knows allot about guns, in every aspect.
Are you shooting those soda cans on top of old tires? " you'll shoot your eye out kid!"
Hello, Nice Video—What is the height of your front sight? I want to get the receiver-mounted Skinner for a Henry Octagon .22, but I think it will require a taller sight. Thanks, Chris, Tx
The action on that rifle is BUTTER
.02 hundredths
.002 thousandths
You make me mad you should have drank the pop before shooting the cans
Combing a skinner express with an LPVO on my Marlin. Kept the wood stock but swaped on the Midwest rail. Combining old world cowboy with new world operating has lead me to fall in love with lever gats on a whole new level. My AR has been relegated to second fiddle for ranch work since I built my Marlin. I hope more and more gun guys my age get into the lever world.
What are the best value aperture sights for centerfire rifles?
I too have 72 yr old eyes. I have a 94 Winchester in 30-30, and a Marlin in 32 special that I can't see the sights on very well. Do you think the aperture sight would help?
The realy old model Marlin 39's were some of the Best rifles ever made,, the newest 39's were good enough but i do miss the old ones…
I tried many different sights and a long eye-relief scope on my Winchester 94AE .44mag, and nothing beats the quick target acquisition of iron sights. And I don't use anything but open sights on any of my pistols and revolvers. Red dots, laser, etc. are way too slow. People should practice more instinctive shooting than anything else. Speed can be the difference between life and death.
Excellent presentation.
Like many others, I learned to shoot aperture sights in the military, and frankly don’t care to use anything else.
I never missed a single 300m target.
Great vid. Good, clear narration.
I don't understand your berm/backstop. It seems like a path/trail back there. These things stand out madly for me, as my region only allows government inspected range set up, and this would not pass the inspection by any means.