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The famous Lyman folding rear sight is standard on many factory rifles.

A good example of a semi-buckhorn sight on an old-time Model 94 Winchester. The horns almost make it to full buckhorn status, but not quite.

When sighting in, even when going for the dead-center hold, I begin with six o-clock because it offers a more specific aiming point: a bull’s eye sitting on top of a front sight. For dead-center sighting, the group falls just below the bull’s eye. Sighting in to zero at the base of the bull, the rifle will be sighted in for the dead-center hold. The true six o’clock hold, with bull’s eye optically “sitting right on top of” the front sight, the bullet strikes just above the aiming point. This allows the target to remain visible, rather than be covered by the front sight. Aperture sights on my Marlin rifles in .30-30, .32 Winchester Special, and .38-55 are sighted to group about three inches above the front sight at 100 yards, which provides a hold-on for deer-sized game out to 200 yards.