Development of PP loads for the .44-77.

[Distant Thunder]

It's been my experience that verticals are always a problem with barrel sights. I don't use them much on my single shots, in fact most of them have no provision for a rear barrel sight at all. The reason for that is most, if not all, of my shooting with those rifles is at 200 yards and beyond.

I do a fair amount of shooting with my leverguns using barrel sight. A number of which have only iron sight or barrel sights on them. Even the ones that are scoped have an option to use some sort of iron sights. Fortunately the hunting I do with my leverguns here in the heavily wooded northern part of Wisconsin is limited to about 150 yards and irons can be very effective at those ranges even for me.

How other shooters, or the buffalo runners of old, can shoot so well at extended ranges using only barrel sights is a mystery to me. I would guess it requires a lot of practice and not just from the bench but in the field. For me the range limit with barrel sights would be a bit beyond 100 yards. For that reason I really have to resort to target sights or more so a scope these days as my eyes age. I kinda like hitting what I'm aiming at!