Swedish Mauser 6.5x55 iron sights question

Interesting, my sights are reversed from that, they start at "3" and increase as you slide backwards, yours looks like it starts at 100 and increases as you slide forward.
My front blade is a -.05



 
Somerset Bar said:
I actually buy my brass from them, but they don't list sights on their parts page, do you mean just drop them a note and see if they can get them?

They actually have great shipping times on reloading items :)
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Yes, that's what I mean, they have a lot of those.
 
07blackwater said:
Since I hand load, what I'm going to try to do is try to build a load that gives me zero @ 100 yards with the sights as they are.

If I can't go that low with the powders I have on hand I'm going to try to emulate the 'torped' loads so the brass disk info will be correct. With mine the disk says '1' so that's 3.5"high @100 meters.

I'm going to buy dies this weekend and I have some Hornady 140.0gr on the way. They're flat base but should work OK. I've had great success with Hornady bullets in other calibers lately so I'm sticking with them.

I'll make sure to post back with results.

I have a few old imperial 160gr that I'm going to run over the chrony in the mean time next time I go to the range just for reference of what the factory loads do.

I think tailoring a load to suit the sights might be more fun than changing them, that could just be me though.

I hope I'm not hijacking the thread, just want to add! I love the old 6.5,just haven't toyed with it in years.
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Do not expect too much of the disc as most of those rifles don't have the original one. They were removed when surplused and the discs were shipped separately and re-installed in Canada.
 
Would make sense since it really seems to be set up to shoot loooong distances, and it doesn't have a threaded barrel. I'll have to do a bit more research on these :)
 
Baribal said:
Do not expect too much of the disc as most of those rifles don't have the original one. They were removed when surplused and the discs were shipped separately and re-installed in Canada.
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I wondered about that but I bought mine 30 years ago and it looked barely fired so I think it might be the proper disk.

The bluing on the inside of the barrel where the shells ride when feeding is pristine.
 
Somerset Bar said:
I have one of these and she is a real pleasure to shoot, however I use it at the 100 yard range AND the 300 yard. She is almost perfect at 300 but I'm aiming about a foot low @100. What would be the easiest way to sight it in at 100 and then use the rear sight adjustment when I hit the 300? Is there a replacement front sight that I could find?

Just curious what you guys would do. I know, I can just use it for the 300 but I'm not there as much as I am at the 100 and I really love the cartridge (fast and low recoil).
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Remember the acronym F.O.R.S. Front opposite - Rear same. If you want to move your POI down - then you adjust your Front sight in the opposite direction (i.e., UP), or you move your Rear sight - Down. If you want to move your POI UP, then you adjust the front sight down, or the rear sight up.
To calculate the correction to blade height you need - you first need to know the distance between your rear sight and front sight (in inches) - and also the distance to your target (if you know it in yards - just multiply by 36 - you must keep all the units the same.)
Multiply the POI correction you want not make (in inches) and multiply that by the distance between your front and rear sight - we will call that "A".
Then multiply your distance to the target (in yards) by 36 - so that you have that in inches too - we will call that "B".
Finally divide A by B to give the correction to the height of your front blade.
If you want to bring your POI down - then this is how much TALLER your front sight blade needs to be. If you need to bring your POI up, then this is how much height you need to remove from the front blade height.

I hope my explanation is simple - it really isn't complex. I've used one of my Swedish Mausers out to 530 yards with the iron sights, consistently hitting a 10" target plate - I use 139gr heads, and reload using 34.5grains of Vit N150.

WGB
 
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