Originally Posted by
jonk
Depends on a lot of things. Your eyes of course. The width of the front sight. Sight radius. Distance of the rear sight from the eye.
Personally I start very small; always easier to enlarge. You have to balance target acquisition time as well. From a bench on a paper target where there's only one target down range, I could shoot a VERY small peep- but it doesn't help you much if you bring your gun to bear and have to keep looking OVER the sight to acquire your targets.
While I can't give you an exact size, I would say that whatever diameter allows you to just see the rows of pigeons on either side with the bird board, or just see the 2 targets on either side of the one you are aiming at with hanging targets would be the minimum I'd go with. That sounds like it would be huge, but it really isn't.
On my Sharps I'm using 5/64", on my Enfield 2 band, 3/32".
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