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Just bought a new 45-70. Tried to improve on the factory sights by picking up the XS ghost ring. Mounted it and headed to the range.

Here's the problem, I'm hitting about 12 inches above my point of aim and can't screw that ring down any further. I have the factory front sight on it.

Do I need to buy another front sight? I'm shooting some cheap federal, 300 grain factory loads until I can find a die and bullets. When I switch to handloads with either 350's or 405's maybe they will hit a little lower?

Doubt it since everyone that I know has been telling me that the factory stuff is very pedestrian.

I'm assuming at least a few of you have had a similar problem.


Any more grief and I'll be buying a scope.
 
At what range are you shooting? You may need a taller front sight. Not a big deal to change. What is the height suggested by XS?
 
I thought the new front sight was part of the package with a Ghost Ring. It was on the one we got.
 
Bluffton Bill said:
Just bought a new 45-70. Tried to improve on the factory sights by picking up the XS ghost ring. Mounted it and headed to the range.

Here's the problem, I'm hitting about 12 inches above my point of aim and can't screw that ring down any further. I have the factory front sight on it.

Do I need to buy another front sight? I'm shooting some cheap federal, 300 grain factory loads until I can find a die and bullets. When I switch to handloads with either 350's or 405's maybe they will hit a little lower?

Doubt it since everyone that I know has been telling me that the factory stuff is very pedestrian.

I'm assuming at least a few of you have had a similar problem.


Any more grief and I'll be buying a scope.
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Yup, sounds to me like you need a taller front sight.

BTW, often in slow, heavy recoiling calibres like the .45-70, you'll find slower headier bullets will hit to a a higher POI. This is due to the bullet being in the barrel longer and leaving after the barrel has recoiled upward significantly.

Chris.
 
Like Gunlaker Just said ...

The slower loads

(for 45-70 thats the springfield trap door loads ~ 405 gr @ 1200fps)

the gun recoils with the bullet still in the barrel giving you the higher poi .

When I first got my 1895 Marlin SBL, I tried the Rather sedate Remington

loads , which shot 12 inches high at 50yds .

I then tried the Hornady Leverevolution rounds 325gr @ 2050fps , and the

first round hit inside a 1" by 1.5 inch rectangular bullseye !

As it turns out Marlin had sighted it in using the Hornady ammo .

That was using the XS ghost ring sights as it comes from the factory .
 
I have a scope on my 1895 45-70 and it's the most predictable sighting with different loads, of any rifle I have ever had.
The really light loads, where the bang dies away, then you hear the bullet hit the 100 metre target, are about a foot lower than the real shoulder thumping loads. All with 420 grain bullets. The intermediate loads are in between, just as you would expect them, light intermediates up a bit from the lowest, while high intermediate loads go up close to the highest loads.
As a point of interest, 4895 powder is very accurate over a wide range of loadings.
 
If you do want to pick up a new front post skinner sights does a very good job and is a great guy to boot.

I've been hooked on RL7 for my 45-70 loads, accurate and burns super clean.
 
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