What Walter said! Forty years ago I didn't have a bit of trouble with those sights. Now is a completely different matter.

You think a Smith is bad, my Colt Police Positive Special 6" in .32-20 is even harder to see!!

Oh, BTW, your gun doesn't have the narrow sights!!! At least blowing your photo up it appears to have the barrel-shaped extractor rod head instead of the earlier bugle-shaped one. That makes your gun after 1928 as I recall, and the sight change was ordered in 1922. Measure your front sight. it should be ca. .080 thick, and the rear notch square. The earlier s front sight measures .040 with a fine "U" shaped rear notch.

S&W used the same .080 sights on their fixed sight guns clear into the 1950s. From there the sight was widened in steps to .100, and, finally, .125, the same as the target sighted guns, which occurred in 1962.

Did anyone warn you to wear earplugs shooting a .32-20? Should have. That Black Hills stuff might not be too bad, but try shooting full power loads and you will find this mild cartridge is every bit as sharp as a .357 Magnum. And, don't worry about loading anything in the old manuals shown for revolver, this gun has a heat-treated cylinder.

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