(Unless youre Ilhan Omar, in which case this post is “.45-70 bear gun eleven”)

After I mentioned that I had upgraded the sights on my .45-70 BruinBuster I got a couple emails from people asking for more details on the sights. Okay. Basically, its a protected rear sight with a high-visibility front sight.

Very nicely machined and finished. The colored front sight (or front sight of color, I suppose) is easy to pick up quickly and accurately. Workmanship is excellent. They also included the necessary allen wrench and a little tube of blue threadlocker.

The natural comparison of these sights is to the Skinner Sights. I have a set of Skinner SIghts on my .30-30. They are both very, very similar. I will say, the XS seems a bit more refined and finished. Really, its a six-of-one-half-dozen-of-the-other situation. I ordered the XS sights and received a quick confirmation and tracking number, an email query to Skinner has, so far, gone unaswered. Ok, guess I’ll spend my money with the people that were responsive.

Still gotta pick a bullet, load up some ammo, and head to the range. But not this weekend…its a three day holiday weekend and I plan on being up in the hills for a chunk of it.