Shooting with tang sight folded down?

[awpk03s]

I am considering a tang sight on my 92 rifle. However, my concern is how comfortable it would be to hold/shoot with the sight folded down... I envision not "always" using the tang sight except for longer range shots, and it folds down right where my hand wraps around the stock.

How do you get around this? I am thinking that perhaps a tang sight isn't for me for these reasons but I'm not quite ready to dismiss it yet... ao please tell me what you think.

[jdad]

Tang sights were designed to greatly improve accuracy, at all ranges. Trying to use it just for "long" range shots defeats the purpose of mounting it.

[kimwcook]

With a tang mounted sight you have to adjust your buttstock grip by laying your thumb along the side of the stock. Not over the top. It just takes a little practice and use to get familiar with it.

[crs]

What Kimcook said +1. With a hard kicking rifle, you will learn this thumb placement soon after a couple of nose bruises.

[AJMD429]

On a .357 Rossi (24") I was fooling with, for awhile I had both a Taurus Tang Sight ($29 clone of Marble's) and a Williams FP I'd not yet taken off - made sighting in easy, as I just lined up the tang aperture with the FP one until I could see the front sight through both. Anyway, I vaguely thought of keeping the FP, but needed it for another gun, and found there was no particular reason to have another rear sight if I had a tang sight.

For me, the tang is more of a 'target range' sight, in that I think they seem fragile, and if you have to un-fold them from a 'carry' position for use, they prohibit a 'snap-shot' unless the user is far more practiced than I am.

Overall my favorite is the Williams FP. Requires an easy Drill & Tap job.

[Chuck 100 yd]

I use a Marbles tang sight with the aperture removed for cowboy action shooting. My old eyes don't see middle sights any more without a diopter and the tang sight is very fast. Just put the front on the target and let her go.
Learn to shoot with your thumb along side the wrist instead of wrapped around it and your speed for follow up shots will also improve.