Marbles Tang Sight on Winchester 9422

[Stormin.40]

I am thinking of putting a Marbles Tang Sight on my Winchester 9422. The down sides as I see it are having to drill and tap a screw in order to mount and he cost associated with the installation and purchase of the sight. I could just go with a skinner receiver peep sight and save money and keep the gun original.

If I go the tang route would I be able to leave the rear buckhorn sight in place? How much will drill and taping the gun effect its value? I don't plan to sell as it was my first gun, but want to keep in mind for future generations.

I am looking to get increased accuracy from this rifle similar to that of the cheap scope that it has on it now. I hate the ugly scope on it now.

Any other thoughts or opinions are welcome. I have no experience with peep or tang sights.

 

[bhk]

I think the Marbles would be a great choice. You will find that you will want to take out the old rear sight and put a sight blank in the dovetail in order to get a clean sight picture.

 

[Bare Grills]

Several of my guns have tang sights. I replace the rear sight with a Marbles fold down sight. They are very inexpensive. The best of both worlds.

 

[dagger dog]

How's your eyes ? If they are 20/20 the Skinner would be the way to go.

If you have old eyes the closer the aperture is to the eye the easier it will be to focus on the front sight.

It depends on the rifle if you are able to leave the rear sight in place.

I have a 92 clone and am able to leave the full buckhorn rear in place and line all three up, and shoot with the Marble's tang, if the distances are the 25-50 yd. range the buckhorn is blocked, so I just fold the tang, any thing over that distance I leave the tang raised and it sights over the buckhorn.

 

[Stormin.40]

My eyes are correctable with contacts and glasses so I am strongly considering the skinner sight. If I don't like it I guess I can always go the marble fold down route.

Thank you for your opinions.

 

[Stormin.40]

Well I don't do anything quickly, but I did finally pick up a Marble Tang Sight for my 9422. I plan to have a gun smith install the sight, a local shop charges $15 per hole to drill and tap, another shop quoted me "about" $100 to drill/tap and mount the sight I thought this was a little much. $15 doesn't seem that bad to me when you factor in the set up and such. They cannot get to it until after deer season so I won't have any reviews or pictures for a while.

 

[dagger dog]

It will be well worth the cost and time, tang sights seem to "go" with lever guns.
Upload a pic for us when you get it done !

 

[Krogen]

I really like tang sights. I put a Williams receiver sight on my 9422, though. I did not want to drill and tap the tang. The Williams sight clamps right on the receiver dovetail. Not as classic looking as a tang sight, but it works well.

 

[Stormin.40]

Well I am back to the drawing board. The tang sight won't work, the action comes back too far and I. I called marble arms to inquire what was wrong and they told me they discontinued the tang sight for the 9422. I have already sent mine back to Buffalo Arms where I got it. I am suppose to call after Dec. 1st to talk to their technical director who is out hunting. Of they don't have a tang sight that will work I will just put a skinner receiver sight on it.

Now I am curious how others have installed their Marble Tang sight?

 

[dagger dog]

Stormin,

Varner Tang Sights lists the W2294 for the Winchester 9422 in 22 and 22 Mag. click on the order icon and scroll to the bottom of the page.

www.tangsights.com

 

[lone-wolf]

I would love to put a tang sight on my 9422m, but will likely go with a skinner sight so I can install things myself.

 

[Peter M. Eick]

What about a williams?

 

[rondog]

I bought a Williams like that for my 94AE Trapper, not impressed. Lightweight aluminum, graduation markings are lame, adjustments are awful (loosen screws and slide, very frustrating), and there's not enough windage movement to get it right. Just a very crappy sight, in my experience. Maybe their higher-end models are better, but the economy models aren't.

And they look very out-of-place on a Winchester too. JMHO.

 

[Peter M. Eick]

That must have been a 5D series. Mine is the FP series with click adjustable lettings. Yes you release that upper screw to adjust vertical, but the adjustment screw is on top and is a click with detents. I found it very easy to use and accurate although I rarely change it now.

Thanks for the advice. I had considered the 5D before but never bought one and put FP's on all of mine. I could not justify the target knobs though.

http://www.williamsgunsight.com/gunsights/FPpage.htm

 

[Stormin.40]

Dagger Dog, I should have checked THR yesterday, I ordered a skinner sight this morning.

I like the look of the Varner sights at 1/2 the cost of the Marbles. If I don't like the skinner I can then drill and tap for the Varner sight.

I will post pictures when I get the skinner mounted, I will probably have to get a new front sight but I will wait until after I get to the range.

 

[CraigC]

I don't care for the 5D at all but the Foolproof is excellent. The model for grooved receivers is a tad bulky but it works just fine on my 94/22.

 

[Stormin.40]

Well I put the Skinner on my 9422 and it looks great, fit very tight. I hope to get to the range soon and see where the POI is at with the factory front sight. From everything I have read it seems I will need to replace the front sight blade with a .450" height and file down from there.

I plan to adjust the front sight for a 50 yard zero.

 

[Kernel]

I could not justify the target knobs though

Brownells sells FP target knobs separately. IIRC about $10 ea. On a number of my lever actions I've added a target knob for elevation only. It's the one I fiddle with the most.

 

[351 WINCHESTER]

Every single time I have added a peep sight I had to install a higher front sight.

 

[Peter M. Eick]

One advantage of the way I did it (drill and tap the receiver) is I am using the factory front sight and the peep is snuggled right down on the receiver. It is a very nice setup.

 

[Sheepdog1968]

Well I put the Skinner on my 9422 and it looks great, fit very tight. I hope to get to the range soon and see where the POI is at with the factory front sight. From everything I have read it seems I will need to replace the front sight blade with a .450" height and file down from there.

I plan to adjust the front sight for a 50 yard zero.

I put a skinner on my 22 LR browning lever action. I like it very much as well. It shot 9" high at 25 yards (17.5" distance between front and rear sights). I did the fancy math to figure out which front signt I needed to order and it came out to the 0.60" front sight. Obviously you need to shoot yours and see.

 

[Stormin.40]

Just to follow up, as it has been cold here in WI I took my 9422 with the skinner peep sight to an indoor range, 25 yards, and it shot 2" high with the factory front sight. I haven't measure the factory front sight nor the sight radius yet, my rough estimate calculations show I will need a 0.04" increase from the factory sight.

I think I will order a smaller aperture along with a front sight as the standard size was a bit large for precision shooting at only 25 yards. I expect it would have worked nicely at 50-100 yards.