Yesterday, I realized that it's been since May that I did anything on my own rifle projects in my shop.  Pretty much dropped everything when I pursued the Jamison Brass, and never got started again as too many other things interfering.

Yesterday, I decided to finish one of the Ballards I'd been working on.  I assembled it all.  Just the sights to go.

Tonight, I went through my sights.  I did not have a single suitable set.  Almost, but not quite.   

I've been standardizing on MVA, or at least meaning to.  I pulled all the other sights off my rifles, bought MVA buffalo soules for the ones we're using, and intend to buy more and convert all of them over when I get to it.  And, convert all to MVA windgauge fronts so I don't have to search through a half dozen different types of inserts.   

So, I found about 20 tang sights.  Many Axtell (what I used before I went to MVA), a few Baldwin (tried them, didn't like the backwards soule), and a fair assortment of MVA, some soule, some Sharps style windage, along with a bunch of bases.   

Several MVA windgauge fronts.  A few Axtel.  A few unknown.

Not a single short range MVA soule, suitable for the .22.  Do have a mid range, think I'll use it at least for now.   

Front sight, found a suitable MVA.  It slides through the dovetail with no resistance.  Found another, same problem.  How irritating; it's an original barrel that's lined; dovetail is too big and I've already blued the barrel, so hate to cut it for a Sharp size dovetail and have to mess with fixing the blue.   

I guess I'll put a bit of solder on the sight base, or maybe glue in a shim on the barrel.  If that doesn't work out, see if Jim will cut me a sight with oversize base, or resort to recutting the dovetail and retouching the blue.

I need to put some effort into selling about 15 sights that I wont' use, and order an assortment of MVA, so I don't have to re-learn that I don't have what I need on hand every time I want to do something.