r/canadaguns • u/Ancient-Asparagus859 • May 31 '26

Feets / Collection / My build Blasphemy? Maybe.

The rear ghost ring on the irons is way too big for me to shoot this gun with any repeatability. The red dot makes a huge difference. Ordered a smaller stem in order to actually use the irons as backup.

S&W 1854 .44, Vortex Sparc 2.

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u/Goliad1990 May 31 '26

You're focusing on the front sight, correct?

The 1854 rear aperture is not big. It shouldn't be causing you problems if you have your fundamentals down.

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u/Ancient-Asparagus859 Jun 02 '26

My riger scout gen 1 in 308 has a similar ghost ring but the rear is about 2/3rds the size and I can hit a 6inch gong at 250 yards all day that that.

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u/Murray3-Dvideos May 31 '26

Not impossible.

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u/Iokua_CDN May 31 '26

I hear some folks stick an O rings in the ghost ring  to make it a smaller hole. Cheap fix if it works!

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u/Ancient-Asparagus859 May 31 '26

Yeah that could be the ticketfor sure

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u/Iokua_CDN May 31 '26

See I'm the opposite problem.  Citadel levtac with the peep mounted partway down the barrel.  It had a threaded insert,  plus being further away, means the peep was damn near useless until I took out the insert to widen it. But that's with the peep much further away from my eye.

I think you could add a bit of glue to the oring to make it stay  in place  too, if you were worried about friction not being enough. Probably it would be enough though 

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u/TheSockington May 31 '26

I went with a LPVO to get the red dot feel but also makes hitting small steels spread out at 100yards a fun game. The original sights were so-so for me as I mainly shot open V notch irons

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u/Ancient-Asparagus859 May 31 '26

Nice! Yeah it takes a bit to get on target at distance for sure. But I was hitting a 2inch group on steel at 145 yards