Ruger American Rimfire Compact with target iron sights?

[BluRidgDav]

Saw this on Ruger's website. It seems "aimed" at youth marksmanship training and distributed by United Sporting Companies.

https://www.ruger.com/products/americanRimfireCompact/specSheets/8328.html

Comes with a Williams aperture rear peep sight with target adjustment knobs and a Williams globe front sight. (It might accept inserts?)

Has anyone seen / handled / or actually fired one of these rifles ???

It looks like a neat little trainer, but, based solely upon the website photo, it seems like the rear sight is positioned a little too far forward for proper use of "target irons"? Maybe done to reach either the 3/8" dovetail or the rear scope mounting holes, which are both located in front of the closed bolt handle. And the front globe appears quite a bit larger and taller in proportion to the rear sight? Hard to tell from only one photo, or, maybe Ruger just photo-shopped the sights onto a regular RARC for the website?

Any info about this model #8328 would be appreciated. Thanx, Dave.

 

[Pahoo]

Just saying.

It seems "aimed" at youth marksmanship training

It's a neat little youth size rifle but don't see where is lists this "specific" application.

I say this because many, if not most of the youth training programs, only allow single-shot rifles. ....

Be Safe !!!

 

[blackwidowp61]

Very interesting rifle. It would make a great youth/small-statured adult training rifle which can be modified to grow with the shooter.

As for the rear peep, I did a little looking around and found that UTG makes a Tactical Low Profile Rail Mount for Ruger 10/22 Rifle that would probably work for this rifle. (Couldn't paste the image on here.) All you would need to do is spin it so it hangs over the tang, maybe?