I'm looking for a ladder type rear barrel sight for my newly acquired Sharps 45-70.

What have folks used with success. It needs to be rugged as it will be coming in and out of a scabbard.

My maximum range will be 500 yds, but usually under 300yds.

What say you?

Call Shiloh and get their standard full buckhorn rear barrel sight. That is what I use, and yes, it will reach 500 yards and then some.

What kind of rifle do you have, and is your barrel cut for the rear sight dovetail and drilled and tapped for the sight screw?

I have a Pedersoli Benchrest model. The barrels is drilled and taped and also has the rear sight dovetail.

The Shiloh sight mounts in the DT correct?

That is correct.

+1 on the Shiloh sight.

Now I'm not sure why I want to go to all the trouble!

I just got back from the range.....RL7 under a 420g Ranch Dog Gas Check bullet with Lee tumble lube shot this ten shot group at 100 yards........using the crappy "Buck Horn" sights that the rifle now wears...



That one low shot was a clean, oily barrel......the group itself is 9 shots off a sandbag rest!

I have Shilohs, and I have Pedersolis. Some Pedersoli barrel sights are pretty rough, and some are actually nicely done. They all work, and if I had a Pedersoli with a barrel ladder sight, I wouldn't change it out. Even the rough ones shoot very well when you learn to use them, as you are finding out.