Used the ladder sight slightly between the 200 minimum mark and bottomed out.
Ammo was Soft Point Federal 180gr's.
I couldn't produce anything even worth taking a photo of using the battle sight, it's far too open to get a consistent hold. The front blades on these rifles are very thin lending to ease of consistency on POA with the tiny ladder hole I find.
The nice 1" wide piece of hard-as-steel rubber pad makes shooting it very painful on the shoulder though! 20 rounds that day was enough for me for a while lol
lol If someone doesn't like it they take it up with the dead man who owned it before me/can politely go f**k their hats...
The rifle actually belonged to my wifes Grandfather who was a Sioux band chief originally from Manitoba I believe. He used the rifle for many years hunting and catching many moose and deer with it before he died. All the carving/painting on the stock was done by him prior to his death.
The reason the bolt was missing is because for certain reasons the police were called to my wifes house when she was very young, her grandfather was living with her and her parents at the time (this is at least 20+ years ago) he had just returned from moose hunting and had the rifle apart for cleaning on the table. The police asked him if he had a licence, he said no. They asked him if he had a hunting licence/tag for the moose hanging in the backyard, he said I'm a card carrying native and I don't need one. They confiscated the bolt from the rifle and said come get it back when you get a firearms licence. He died shortly after and the bolt was never recovered. The rifle then went into a blanket and was buried in a closet for 20+ years until it was given to us by an old family member just this spring at which point I set about to restoring it back to fighting shape.
Thanks for all the info and help on this guys. Much appreciated! The wife got a little wet in the eyes seeing her old Grand Pappy's moose gun back in shooting shape.
Debating on sand blasting the barrel and receiver and cerakoting it as there is still a lot of crusted surface rust on/under the barrel and all over the front sight block which I couldn't remove without going very heavy on it and destroying the surface finish all around. Don't want it to keep corroding. I have a thick layer of grease and oil on her now.
