It snaps into the upright position via spring pressure and there is an adjustment screw to get the sight perpendicular to the barrel. I ended up with a Pedersoli 'English' 466 sight. You need to research this some to learn about it before jumping in and waste money on cheap sights that don't work and you need to determine if you want to shoot long range bad enough to spend hundreds of dollars on a sight you may never get the use out of. They don't harm anything since they don't fold down all the way to the stock. You can take the sight off the base on a good sight but most leave them on once they are set and adjusted. To get good sights like MVA, you'll spend several hundred more. That will set you back around four hundred. For up to around two hundred yards you might be able to get by with the Pedersoli tang sight and globe front sight. Also, you need to get rid of all the backlash in the adjustments. It's very important to get the sight mounted so it's truly vertical with the bore or it will shift left or right as it's raised and lowered. You really need a precision made sight to do long range shooting. As far as sights go, it's easy to spend seven or eight hundred dollars on a decent set of sights for the gun. If you really want to shoot long range with that rifle (I had one of the Creedmoor Pedersoli's a few years ago) you can do it with the medium range sight. If anyone can suggest which one to buy I would appreciate it. What was the practice in the old days, just keep the sight in your pocket? I have seen people keep spare ammo handly like this. I have a leather buttstock sleeve I thought about modifying the right outboard side to add a leather pouch just big enough to keep the sight in. There must be some way of quickly attaching it to the rifle without fumbling with screws. Why not get the long range one and use it for all ranges?Дo you keep the Creedmoor sight on the rifle, I mean should it fold down flat against the stock? It seems that it could get damaged very easily. What is practical anyway for this cartridge? I know you have to shoot pretty high to lob the bullets in. I would like to be able to shoot at any range that is practical. I see there are at least three ranges, short/medium/long. I would like to add a Creedmoor type sight but just don't know which to get. It came with sights mounted on the barrel. I think it was made by Pedersoli but can only find the Cabelas name on the rifle. I have an 1874 Sharps type rifle I bought at Cabelas a few years ago, 45.70.

Pedersoli sharps tang sight