If you've ever owned a KelTec Sub2000, you know the biggest gripe about these guns is how low you have to get down on the stock/buffer tube for a sight picture. It's almost impossible with muffs on.
A company that makes accessories for the Sub2k makes a nice metal taller rear sight designed to alleviate this, as well as give a more open, faster acquisition type sight picture. They say the higher rear sight works within the adjustment range of the front sight, so all is good. So I was looking at these and noticed something. Below is a screen cap I marked up from their instalation video comparing the two styles they offer next to the stock sight on the right.
This is what the two sight styles are designed to do:
1. Taller more open Peep - More accessible/comfortable sight height, faster target acquisition & better SA than the small diameter stock peep. IMO this actually makes sense, this rifle and caliber's accuracy would not suffer with a slight reduction in precision of the sighting system, PCCs aren't that accurate to begin with.
2. Taller Open notch Sight - The idea is to give an even higher more comfortable sight height and even better SA, etc. but IMO missed the mark on the latter. They say in the video that you don't use the open sight conventionally as in lining up the top of the front sight post with the rear ears. No, you center the top of the front sight post in the notch vertically. I expect that that is because the front sight tops out and won't adjust high enough to be level with the ears. So why did thay make it that high? They could have made it a lttle lower and it would be a conventional sight picture with better SA/visibility because ears wouldn't be sticking up on both sides of the target. One guy in the comments of the video says he got the open notch version and filed it down until he could use a conventional sight picture and it works great.
So.... In the pic below you can see the relative heights of the center of the sight picture in the different sights. I liked the idea of the open notch sight and was about to pull the trigger on one (and these things are not cheap!) when I had a thought, played the vid back until he was showing all 3 sights and sure enough the top of the stock sight is perfectly placed to cut a notch into. Just lop the top of it off along the dotted line and cut a notch down to the countersink, that will leave the ears the right height to be level with the top of the front sight post. Voila, a better solution than what was offered, and cost $.0
What am I missing? Besides the difference between fancy aftermarket bling and a most likely much less professional looking but possibly more functional solution.
A company that makes accessories for the Sub2k makes a nice metal taller rear sight designed to alleviate this, as well as give a more open, faster acquisition type sight picture. They say the higher rear sight works within the adjustment range of the front sight, so all is good. So I was looking at these and noticed something. Below is a screen cap I marked up from their instalation video comparing the two styles they offer next to the stock sight on the right.
This is what the two sight styles are designed to do:
1. Taller more open Peep - More accessible/comfortable sight height, faster target acquisition & better SA than the small diameter stock peep. IMO this actually makes sense, this rifle and caliber's accuracy would not suffer with a slight reduction in precision of the sighting system, PCCs aren't that accurate to begin with.
2. Taller Open notch Sight - The idea is to give an even higher more comfortable sight height and even better SA, etc. but IMO missed the mark on the latter. They say in the video that you don't use the open sight conventionally as in lining up the top of the front sight post with the rear ears. No, you center the top of the front sight post in the notch vertically. I expect that that is because the front sight tops out and won't adjust high enough to be level with the ears. So why did thay make it that high? They could have made it a lttle lower and it would be a conventional sight picture with better SA/visibility because ears wouldn't be sticking up on both sides of the target. One guy in the comments of the video says he got the open notch version and filed it down until he could use a conventional sight picture and it works great.
So.... In the pic below you can see the relative heights of the center of the sight picture in the different sights. I liked the idea of the open notch sight and was about to pull the trigger on one (and these things are not cheap!) when I had a thought, played the vid back until he was showing all 3 sights and sure enough the top of the stock sight is perfectly placed to cut a notch into. Just lop the top of it off along the dotted line and cut a notch down to the countersink, that will leave the ears the right height to be level with the top of the front sight post. Voila, a better solution than what was offered, and cost $.0
What am I missing? Besides the difference between fancy aftermarket bling and a most likely much less professional looking but possibly more functional solution.
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