I had a Lyman #2 Tang Sight installed on my Marlin 336 in .35 Remington. The job looks good. After reading the instructions it appears the gunsmith did NOT use the adapter supplied by Lyman. The sight is affixed to the tang of the rifle. I have not sighted the gun in yet. When I put up the rear sight and the tang sight the sights don't all line up. Is this going to mean another trip to the gunsmith? My guess would have been all three would have lined up unless the rear sight wasn't in alignment when I purchased the gun. It did have a scope on it when I purchased it. Thanks for the help with this inquiry.

Stinger

Is possible that the issue iron sights were off from the factory...and even if they are dead on, would be good to shoot the rifle (just lower the rear sight as far as it will go and use the tang to sight in on whatever sticks up above the rear blade for this test) to be able to SHOW the gunsmith how much it needs to be moved.

Would be nice if it all lined up dead-center, but it seldom works out that way...so long as the front sight isn't driven so far to one side of the slot or the other that it makes your head hurt to look at it, might not need to do anything.

I wonder why he didn’t use the base?

I have installed five of the Lyman No. 2 tang sights on Winchester M-94’s of various vintage. The sights never line up as you think they might. On a 1948 vintage M-94 carbine everything was perfect, no windage adjustment was required and the rifle shot to point of aim with full power reloads. Every other rifle required a shim for windage adjustment – including a Grade 1 M-94 Centennial drilled for the sight from the factory.

Prior to your first trip to the range cut several strips of paper a bit shorter than the length of the sight base and approximately 1/8” to 3/16” wide. If your rifle shoots to the left of your aim point place your shim under the left side of the base. I had to use two strips under the base on one rifle but all the rest only required one shim.

I remove the rear sight (Winchesters don’t fold) and replace them with the Marbles flat top folding – with windage adjustment. These small sights are available from Brownells and can be used with either a round bead or flat top sight.

Yes he drilled through the serial number. This is my first experience with the tang sight and the gunsmith. I understood from the directions the shim was there so the serial number would not have to be drilled through. This weekend I will head to the range for sighting in. A question about the paper shims, don;t they hold water? Why not adjust the front sight to get the gun zeroed in?

Yes he drilled through the serial number. This is my first experience with the tang sight and the gunsmith. I understood from the directions the shim was there so the serial number would not have to be drilled through. This weekend I will head to the range for sighting in. A question about the paper shims, don;t they hold water? Why not adjust the front sight to get the gun zeroed in?

If the rear sight is standing truely vertical, I also hate to lean it over with shims...have done it when there was little choice, but never did like looking at that lean (also intriduces a bit of windage change with any elevation change, but it's not much).

Unless the amount needed to zero leaves the front sight hanging off the side of the barrel a major amount, prefer to take care of windage with the front (dovetail) sight. HAve had some that were far enough over that i made a new front sight with blade standing off-center on it's base, just so the edge of the sight base didn't hang off the side like a diving board.