John Taffin pointed me toward this!
Wild Bill Hickok was noted as a dead shot with his 1851 Colt Navy. Now we can see why. His gun was fitted with a Remington style front sight! It allowed adjustment for windage and elevation. He didn't use "Kentucky Windage" but knew where it would hit.
The pictures are screen captures from a video about the James Butler Hickok exhibit at the Cody Museum.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX8guToQstY
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Guess what I am now looking for!
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Guess what I am now looking for?
Real rear sight perhaps.....
:) .... nah ... my Dremel Tool can fix the rear sights.
BEFORE
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AFTER
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John Taffin pointed me toward this!
VTI GUN PARTS HAS THEM--UBERTI OR PIETTA. LOOK UNDER 1858 REMINGTON
Remington front sight…
by Slow Hand 
, Indiana, Monday, August 28, 2023, 04:21 (453 days ago) @ JT
This and other comments got me thinking and so I pulled the original New Model Army .44 that my grandpa bought back in the mid sixties out of the safe for a look. It had a fixed front sight, not a dovetail style. I wonder when they changed things up.
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May be manufacturer ... Uberti & Pietta use dovetail
Armi San Marco uses what your photo shows.
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Ele era velho.
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May be manufacturer ... Uberti & Pietta use dovetail
by Slow Hand , Indiana, Monday, August 28, 2023, 08:24 (452 days ago) @ JimT
Gotcha. Mine is an original Remington.
I have seen originals with both types of front sight.
I never studied them enough to know what when where or why.
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Ele era velho.
Ele era corajoso.
Ele era feio.
I have seen originals with both types of front sight.
by Slow Hand , Indiana, Monday, August 28, 2023, 16:01 (452 days ago) @ JimT
I wondered about that. I know Colt and Winchester were famous for ‘using up leftovers’ so sometimes serial numbers and options didn’t jive exactly. I can only imagine how it would have been during war time and right after!