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Is the full buckhorn part of the sight adjustable for elevation or just the ladder when raised? Looking at the pictures I cannot tell if sliding the ladder with it down changes the height of the buckhorn. Thanks. Tom

The buck horn portion is fixed for elevation, shooting longer ranges requires it to be flipped up to use the sliding leaf. I started using my barrel sights over a tang. I don’t shoot target matches and out to 300 yards I could easily hold the vitals on a Buffalo. I filed my front sight to sight in at 100 and for the most part the sliding leaf matches the ranges out to 300. I haven’t shot my rifle past 300.

Everything is adjustable to some degree, you the, rifleman are only limited by your imagination. As mentioned above you can file the front sight but like filing the v in the rear that's permanent too. Instead find the load you like, load a larger that normal batch. Get the range early. By varying how high the frt blade is in the rear notch you can make it hit where you want. 25,50, 75, 100, 125,150,175 &200 yds with the std laid down full buckhorn is do able. Then you can use the ladder....bobw

I'd like to add to my post that doing what I said is not an original idea of mine, Bill Bagwell was a master of it....bobw

A buckhorn is a good sight for using just barrel sights if you spent time learning to use the rifle and the sights. with the Buckhorn down you can have at least 5 fixed ranges. 4 besides the notch depending where you hold the front blade in line with the center of the horn to the points, also where you hold the base of the blade with the top of the notch but that works better with the semi buckhorn or the long or short Lawrence sight I prefer using. You can also use the horns as a ranging system for a known game size. Then you have the ladder.
But again you need to learn to use the barrel sights and learn the trajectory of the caliber to get the best from it.
I spent a lot of time shooting at lumps of dirt in a fresh plowed corn field when the fresh turned over soil drys out.
But Farmers don't turn the soil over anymore around here.

Kurt