Finally got my correct Lyman combo rear sight for this pistol (6" barrel--don't know if a factory special or an aftermarket cutdown).
Anyway, when I use the tiny rear sight aperture and the post inside the front sight, I can get it dead on at 50' with the rear elevator slide raised about 1/8" from the bottom--that leaves most of the ladder free to move the sight up if I wanted to.
Yet, when I use the V in the rear sight and use the brass blade on the front combo sight, it shoots about 10" high at 50'.  So of course there is not enough room to lower the rear sight enough to get it "on" when using the rear V notch.
My questions are;
How were these sights supposed to be used--both as a rifle with the stock and as a pistol without the stock?
Rear aperture to front post and rear V to front blade, or something else?
How do you guys use your pocket rifle sights?
Did anyone have to file a deeper V in the rear elevator blade to make it lower, to use the front blade sight?
Sorry, no photo's of it yet with the new rear sight--will try and get them on tomorrow
Thanks all and let me know!

PS--the gun is a shooter!  Barrel is pretty pitted but smooth.  Yet it will keep 4 of 5 shots in the X ring of an NRA B2 50' bullsye target, and all 5 shots in the 10 ring--off sand bag rest with CCI SV ammo.  I was going to have it relined, but not now!
Moral of the story--if you have gun with a flawed barrel--shoot it first before you do anything!

The V notch is the rear sight, on the barrel (it's not a tang sight)
I'll get some photo's and the exact sight radius tonight

It's a brass blade on the top of the front sight "hood" and the post front sight is inside the hood and blade is on top
Will get photo's soon
Thanks
Steve

Here are 3 photo's of the gun now.  Barrel length is exactly 6" and sight radius is exactly 5".  It is shooting 7" high at 50'.  My geometry is sort of rusty as I'm somewhat "chronologically challenged" nowadays and it's been 45 years since high school!
How much would I need to raise the brass blade on top of the front sight to be able to use it as a pistol?  The formula would be nice for 50' as a baseline.
The aperture on the rear sight is too small to use that as a pistol sight. Sorry for the green sight paint dots on the rear elevator bar below the V and on the fron sight internal lollipop post.
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Boats,
OK, will do--thanks for the tips

Will try and repost the photo's later one -- they were moved somehow or by someone

Thanks all--I'll try a glue on gizmo first of course
Here's another jab at the photo's.

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I used to have same action different sighting set up. Model 35. As I recall had to use bottom of the bullseye hold.  Nice pistol wish I still had it

Boats

As far as I know, these sights were manufactured by Stevens. They made these sets of combination sights (aperture and globe on the bottom, express V and blade on top) in two sizes: large for the Tip-Up rifles and small for the pocket rifles.

I own an excellent model 40 pocket rifle in .22LR, and have found that at close range, with the rear sight as low on the ladder as possible, the globe must be placed at the “6 o’clock” position of the target, rather than on top of the target as one might prefer for sporting use.

The distance between the centre of the front globe and the top of the front blade is the same as the distance between the centre of the rear aperture and the bottom of the rear V-notch. This would seem to indicate that the point of impact would be almost the same with both sets of the sights, at the same setting—as long as the sight picture is such that the express front blade is just barely visible at bottom of the rear V-notch. Perhaps you have been using “too much” of the blade.

I’ve always used the aperture and globe, so would have to try shooting with the express sights to make a proper comparison.

Even standard velocity .22LR cartridges may be too much for this small action from the days of black and semi-smokeless powders. I use CB and other subsonic rounds in my gun. An excellent new option is the CCI Quiet-22, which has the full 40-grain Long Rifle bullet:

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