Slickshooter
AH member
- Joined
- Jun 4, 2019
- Messages
- 42
- Reaction score
- 63
- Media
- 3
- Member of
- Wild Sheep Life Member. SCI.
- Hunted
- Canada, USA
Here’s my baby in 375 H&H
The sight hood wasn't for glare, but to protect the sight from bumps, occlusion and snagging. I fail to see how a hoop that is less than two millimeters thick obscures a sight picture. My experience with unhooded front sights is that the conventional post design with a ball at the top snags on brush and tall grass. There are some more modern designs which address this with a beveled blade and this is no longer an issue. This is why military sights have ears on either side of the front sight post. With the advent of the HK style front sight the interrupted circle works wonders for centering up the sight correctly in the rear aperture. Which brings us to the dangerous game rifle with an aperture rear sight and a hooded front sight. Circle, circle, post...Boom! Flop.I ended up taking the front sight hood off mine. IMO, that's the way to go as I've been shooting iron sights 30 years and never once had a problem with glare. It opens the sight picture up significantly.
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Recently joined the club with a Super Express in 416 Rem. It needs some TLC, but should still have plenty life in it. Currently, waiting on the bedding to cure
There really wasn’t any bedding to speak of, but what little epoxy there was, was completely shot.Did the old bedding crumble apart?