Hi,
I took my "new to me" Enfield #4 sporter out to the range yesterday and I have a problem. I believe it's a Parker-Hale, with a 20" bbl and windage adjustable front sight and flip up/battle sights.
Here's the problem:
At 25m, using the flip up sight bottomed out, it shoots about 6" high.
At 50m it also shoots 6" high.
Then, when I brought it out to 100m, I was having a hard time getting it on paper. After putting up the biggest target I could find, a human silhouette, I discovered that it was shooting Way high, like 2 feet. Aiming at the bottom edge of the silhouette, it would hit at the top of the chest on the target.
My buddy and I were stumped, as theoretically, shouldn't the 100m shots be 1" high given the 20m and 50m results? I thought maybe I was doing something wrong, so I handed the rifle over to my buddy, an experienced shooter, who had the same results.
How could this be?
I know my options are: increase height of front sight, lower rear sight (I could remove some material from the bottom of the moving aperture piece that would allow it to move down further, maybe 3-5mm, although this may not even be enough to solve the problem).
Or get my self a mount and scope it. But I'd rather not spend $250 scoping a $250 rifle that Should shoot well with the peep sights.
I'd just like to know why it's defying my trajectory charts. Am I overlooking something?
BTW, ammo was Rem Corelokt 180gr, and Bosnian stuff, both shot the same.
Groups at 50m were excellent, for me anyway, so I'd really like to figure this out and make this a viable deer gun.
Your help is appreciated. Steve
I took my "new to me" Enfield #4 sporter out to the range yesterday and I have a problem. I believe it's a Parker-Hale, with a 20" bbl and windage adjustable front sight and flip up/battle sights.
Here's the problem:
At 25m, using the flip up sight bottomed out, it shoots about 6" high.
At 50m it also shoots 6" high.
Then, when I brought it out to 100m, I was having a hard time getting it on paper. After putting up the biggest target I could find, a human silhouette, I discovered that it was shooting Way high, like 2 feet. Aiming at the bottom edge of the silhouette, it would hit at the top of the chest on the target.
My buddy and I were stumped, as theoretically, shouldn't the 100m shots be 1" high given the 20m and 50m results? I thought maybe I was doing something wrong, so I handed the rifle over to my buddy, an experienced shooter, who had the same results.
How could this be?
I know my options are: increase height of front sight, lower rear sight (I could remove some material from the bottom of the moving aperture piece that would allow it to move down further, maybe 3-5mm, although this may not even be enough to solve the problem).
Or get my self a mount and scope it. But I'd rather not spend $250 scoping a $250 rifle that Should shoot well with the peep sights.
I'd just like to know why it's defying my trajectory charts. Am I overlooking something?
BTW, ammo was Rem Corelokt 180gr, and Bosnian stuff, both shot the same.
Groups at 50m were excellent, for me anyway, so I'd really like to figure this out and make this a viable deer gun.
Your help is appreciated. Steve
