- Location
- In lalaland, that is Ottawa.
As I promised in another thread re: sights, in this forum, I went to Danford Lake Rifle Range today. In that other thread, I gave a very positive first impressiom of the TS200 even before I installed the sight. The instructions that came with the sight are first rate.
My rifle is an early 1951 Tula refurb, not chromed bore, no FP spring, laminated stock. My ammo is the current Czech bxn 1974.
OK - Tech says to set up a target at 20 yards because this distance is the first X-ing point as the bullet rises to the sight line. It only took me 3 groups of 3 shots to be close enought o point-of-aim to go to 100yds.
At 100 yds my first 3 shot group would fit into a rectangle 1" wide and 2.75" high. I made some sight adjustment then did a 5 shot group again at 100yds. The horizontal dispersion was 2.75" and the vertical 4.25" with 2 of the shots landing within 1" of the bull's X and a 3rd out by 2".
I now went to a target at 200yds, with a black aiming mark being a 5" wide and 9.5" high. Surrounding this was a grey area 11.5" X 17" representing none vital area of the human form.
I shot 3 five shot groups. The first required some slight sight adustment. The second group, better but still some sight adjustment. The third group had 4 hits in the 5 X 9.5 vital zone, the 5th shot 1" left of the zone.
Moosetracker was at the range too with his precision rifles & witnessed my targets, not that anyone would dare question the Sly Old Fox and his 82 year old eyes!
In summary, I was elated at the quick results that I had obtained with my SKS due to this great peep and earlier in the week ordered a front sight from Tech Sights, the issue front blade too wide for precision work which will hopefully will cut down on lateral dispersion.
Someone complained about the 0.062" aperature. Well, it is perfect for me. Once, I had the peep contact my glasses. When I took a bit more eye relief, the aperature was perfect.
With the Tech peep and front post, the only other thing that I might do to this SKS is try a trigger job, if I can convince louthepou to do one of his SKS with me.
All in all, a very good day at the range!
My rifle is an early 1951 Tula refurb, not chromed bore, no FP spring, laminated stock. My ammo is the current Czech bxn 1974.
OK - Tech says to set up a target at 20 yards because this distance is the first X-ing point as the bullet rises to the sight line. It only took me 3 groups of 3 shots to be close enought o point-of-aim to go to 100yds.
At 100 yds my first 3 shot group would fit into a rectangle 1" wide and 2.75" high. I made some sight adjustment then did a 5 shot group again at 100yds. The horizontal dispersion was 2.75" and the vertical 4.25" with 2 of the shots landing within 1" of the bull's X and a 3rd out by 2".
I now went to a target at 200yds, with a black aiming mark being a 5" wide and 9.5" high. Surrounding this was a grey area 11.5" X 17" representing none vital area of the human form.
I shot 3 five shot groups. The first required some slight sight adustment. The second group, better but still some sight adjustment. The third group had 4 hits in the 5 X 9.5 vital zone, the 5th shot 1" left of the zone.
Moosetracker was at the range too with his precision rifles & witnessed my targets, not that anyone would dare question the Sly Old Fox and his 82 year old eyes!
In summary, I was elated at the quick results that I had obtained with my SKS due to this great peep and earlier in the week ordered a front sight from Tech Sights, the issue front blade too wide for precision work which will hopefully will cut down on lateral dispersion.
Someone complained about the 0.062" aperature. Well, it is perfect for me. Once, I had the peep contact my glasses. When I took a bit more eye relief, the aperature was perfect.
With the Tech peep and front post, the only other thing that I might do to this SKS is try a trigger job, if I can convince louthepou to do one of his SKS with me.
All in all, a very good day at the range!
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