Well I finally brought my new Winchester 1885 highwall home..man is she pretty.. I want to remove the rear sight and install a dovetail filler/ blank in the slot.
The rifle is high gloss finish as it is a 2016 production. Does anyone make a nice clean fillet I could purchase that won't look unsightly  or am I stuck with things like  Brownells sells..Yuck!!

I see them on E-Bay. Just look up dovetail filler. They seem to go for 10 or 12 dollars.

Most dovetail fillers are a little oversized and need to be filed down to fit.

I think it's MVA that makes a dovetail spirit level that would make an excellent sight filler for a gun with irons sights not so equipped.

I buy cheap dovetail rear sights and cut them in to copies of the old Winchester factory double-pointed slot fillers.

marlinguy wrote on Oct 6^th, 2017 at 11:16pm:


IF you only use one eye when shooting iron sights, then yes, a bubble in rear sight dovetail is useless with tang sights. However, most of us have two useful eyes. At least some shooters I know use other eye to check on bubble level -- I am one of them. Why waste a good 2nd eye??

marlinguy wrote on Oct 8^th, 2017 at 12:03am:


BS Marlinguy!! Those of us that have to do it usually have a simple choice: don't shoot or figure out how to use two poor eyes together. I started doing it from very start, as pre teen, shotguns, revolvers, rifles, rifles mostly scoped. I did it with low-power scopes (2-4X). I did it shooting BPCR with MVA 6x scope, both with scope mounted over barrel and on Steve Earlie's offset mounts. 

Shooters that don't have to develop alternative methods of shooting seldom have any understanding of what the rest of us have to do in order to shoot even decently. Irreversible damage to retina of one eye and nerve damage to all 4 trigger fingers has finally stopped ALL my target shooting and all or nearly all my hunting in past few years.

I now barely qualify to drive, only with glasses and one eye.

To anyone with two good eyes, enjoy!!

svartkruttgris#369 wrote on Oct 8^th, 2017 at 3:04pm:



None of what you just posted supports the ability to keep one eye on a spirit level in the rear sight position, while looking at the front sight with the other eye. You call BS, and yet it's obvious you do not shoot long range, or can't remember how to do so!!!
I never said anything about not being able to shoot with both eyes open, yet you call BS and explain how it can be done. Of course some shooters shoot with both eyes open, and I never denied that. But to say you can somehow have one eye looking down at the bubble 10" away, while the other is looking at the sight on the end of the barrel, and the target AND still shoot accurately, is the biggest crock of BS I've ever heard!
Even if you had two god eyes, it would not allow them to look in different directions, and do an accurate job of shooting. Beyond being barely competent to drive, it seems you're barely competent to read, or comprehend what's been written too!

calledflyer wrote on Oct 8^th, 2017 at 3:26pm:


My friend Larry is missing all but his thumb and traditional trigger finger on his shooting hand (lefty) and can't grip the wrist, but shoots pretty doggone good! Even with not enough sight to reach almost 1000 yds., and having to hold over!

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