Sight

Wings are a horizon, not a tattoo

Two rails, a bumper, a single painted line, a pair of fangs. They look loud in a shop. After six on Overton they can smear into the bermuda. We lamp them until one language still aims.

Overton and Audubon throw mixed light. A dual-rail mallet that looks like a runway under fluorescent becomes a grey slab when the trees take the sun. Players start aiming the left rail at a shadow that is not a line. The miss is “left after six.” The head has not changed. The horizon has.

Suite 4 drops a tungsten boom, then cracks the Madison shade so streetleak dirties the picture. If a wing set only works in the bright condition, it does not get a blessing. We will try a simpler sight — one rail, a thick painted line, a dot on the cavity — before we talk about a new family of heads.

Dual rails

Helpful at noon. Greedy at dusk. If your eyes pick the inner edge of the left rail, you start closed. Della photographs that pick.

Bumper wings

A wider horizon. They can hide a face that is already open. We check whether you are aiming the bumper or the cavity line without noticing.

Single line

Ugly in a catalog. Honest after six. Plenty of full sits end here, on a head the player thought was “too quiet.”

What we write on the card

Wing language, the lamp condition it survived, and whether streetleak still kept the aim. If the indoor wings are fine and the Overton miss remains, the card says grain — see Memphis grain — not a new paint job.