HW/Weihrauch Which is your favorite front sight or insert?

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Bear-of-Grayling

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I can think of many different front sight options available today. I remember the days of getting my wife’s nail polish out and painting the front iron sight. Nowadays there’s, night sights, fiber optics, dots, etc. I like and have them all. But I still prefer the globe front sight with interchangeable inserts on my air rifles. Weihrauch still uses a good one and supplies several inserts with a new gun. However, with the new stock designs Weihrauch is making, that incorporates such a high comb (leaving the iron sights almost unusable) makes me wonder if their iron sights are on the endangered list. So my favorite sight is the globe, and my favorite insert is the “lollipop”. Followed by the “clear plastic”. Been shooting these for four decades now. I added this Walther anti-glare tunnel to my Weihrauch globe. It’s really nice as it reduces glare and allows a larger rear aperture for centering. These old eyes need every benefit they can get. Do you have a favorite front sight?
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crowski said:
I’ve never paid attention to the front sight, always automatically putting a scope on the rifle. Have a few Weihrauch sets. Been eye balling these iron sights and have to try. Thanks for the post. Crow
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With all your beautiful airguns you have none set up with good old irons? You are missing the boat!
 
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Depends on what I’m shooting and what the light is like. For paper I really like the clear insert like bottom left. Especially since I have 3 different colored lenses for my shooting glasses. For things that move, I love the Williams with hunting iris or twilight depending on available light. Flat post up front. The Williams does well on paper with the target iris installed, but not as well as the circular insert. Haven’t had a chance to play with the adjustable front yet. Crow, but the stock sights back on the 300S and try it. It’s what that gun was made for.
 
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Bear-of-Grayling said:
With all your beautiful airguns you have none set up with good old irons? You are missing the boat!
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I’m trying to follow a game plan. So much, so fast, hard keeping up. And not even scratching the surface. I purchased a Diopter sight back in the summer. Don’t know the make.
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From a member, don’t remember his name. This needs a stop pin, I think.
I’m going to start with a 85 and 77.
I have a 300s and got a taste of the sights, so looking forward to playing with them. Crow
 
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cjtamu said:
Depends on what I’m shooting and what the light is like. For paper I really like the clear insert like bottom left. Especially since I have 3 different colored lenses for my shooting glasses. For things that move, I love the Williams with hunting iris or twilight depending on available light. Flat post up front. The Williams does well on paper with the target iris installed, but not as well as the circular insert. Haven’t had a chance to play with the adjustable front yet. Crow, but the stock sights back on the 300S and try it. It’s what that gun was made for.
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I talked the the owner of the sights. He has to find them, then call me. Looking positive. Can’t thank the two of you enough. Crow
 
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crowski said:
I’m trying to follow a game plan. So much, so fast, hard keeping up. And not even scratching the surface. I purchased a Diopter sight back in the summer. Don’t know the make.View attachment 407488From a member, don’t remember his name. This needs a stop pin, I think.
I’m going to start with a 85 and 77.
I have a 300s and got a taste of the sights, so looking forward to playing with them. Crow
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Looks like Weihrauch diopter.
 
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the Weihrauch globe sight is fine but the inserts are limited, of course if you have one you like you are set
Anschutz has by far the best selection of inserts and at the size of 17.2mm are used by others like the Lyman 93 and 20
Old Walther at 15.9mm is also used on many guns
FWB uses them Diana and Walther and Kimber 82 use them in the .22lr
and then they standardized the sights to take 18 or 22mm Slimline style inserts or accessories
diopter sights and globe front sights is and very large rabbit hole and i several years ago jumped in with both feet
you add Gehmann to the mix or Centra or even Anschutz and the rabbit hole just gets bigger

and yes crowski that is a Weihrauch diopter as stated
 
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My favorite front sight is the Weihrauch economy globe sight. It's a fixed sight that came on my base model Hw95. I wore the paint of of two of them on my Hw30. It has a tapered post that gives me the sharpest POA over all the Weihrauch inserts. The rim around it is thinner and blocks less sight picture. I add one to every order from chambers

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Like BoG, I go back and forth between rings (sighting in on paper), and beaded posts (general faffing about). My older eyeballs have a hard time finding the end of a sharp pointed post.

Diana makes a nice tapered beaded post that's my fave, and the Diana pattern inserts also fit old Walther and FWB front sights. L-R, FWB universal high and low sights, and a Diana sight - all with Diana inserts.

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crowski said:
I’m trying to follow a game plan. So much, so fast, hard keeping up. And not even scratching the surface. I purchased a Diopter sight back in the summer. Don’t know the make.View attachment 407488From a member, don’t remember his name. This needs a stop pin, I think.
I’m going to start with a 85 and 77.
I have a 300s and got a taste of the sights, so looking forward to playing with them. Crow
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As stated above. This is a Weihrauch Diopter. And the stop is built into it. When you install it, remove the from stop (top round knob). With it totally removed, shine a light into the hole and get it perfectly centered over a hole in the receiver. Then install the stop carefully. It’s easy to mare the top of the receiver if you bring the stop down on the edge and try to tighten it in.
 
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MDriskill said:
Like BoG, I go back and forth between rings (sighting in on paper), and beaded posts (general faffing about). My older eyeballs have a hard time finding the end of a sharp pointed post.

Diana makes a nice tapered beaded post that's my fave, and the Diana pattern inserts also fit old Walther and FWB front sights. L-R, FWB universal high and low sights, and a Diana sight - all with Diana inserts.

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Do those Diana or Walther globes fit a Weihrauch’s grooves?
 
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