A firearm sighting system includes a rear sight unit having a plurality of
separate sight elements adaptable for "zeroing" the same gun with
different ammunition. In preferred embodiments, a rear sight unit
comprises windage and elevation adjustments for each of two sight
elements, so that multiple ammunition types having different trajectories
may be fired accurately from a single firearm after zeroing-in one of the
plurality of sight elements for each of the different ammunition types.
Preferably, the separate sight elements may be connected to each other or
to a common pivot arm or movable bracket so that moving one sight element
into the sight path automatically removes the other from the line of
vision. Elevation adjustments may be done in various ways, for example,
by sliding sight elements out along an arm or bracket, or by changing an
angle of the arm or bracket relative to the firearm. The preferred
sighting system also includes an elevation-adjustable front sight unit,
which may act as an extension member for gross adjustment of the front
end of the firearm by significantly lowering the barrel position for a
given line of sight between the user's eye, the selected rear sight, and
the front sight. Alternatively, the rear sight unit multiple sight
elements may comprise only one that is windage adjustable and elevation
adjustable, which rear sight unit may cooperate with a front sight unit
that has one sight element that is windage adjustable and elevation
adjustable.