- Location
- Ft. Mac. Alberta
Never yell "WHOA!" in a bad mud hole - and leave the danged sights ALONE- unless they are micrometer match sights , then twist away!!:>)
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Tip of the day...
- Thread starter Mount Sweetness
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If you're like me and, lucky enough to have a girlfiend who shoots MUCH better...
Do not leave the sights alone! Use every oportunity to loosen screws, shift posts and, a personal fav, fill the rear sight with black crayon!
That's not the tip...Don't get caught is!
Do not leave the sights alone! Use every oportunity to loosen screws, shift posts and, a personal fav, fill the rear sight with black crayon!
That's not the tip...Don't get caught is!
Sandbag up and shoot one round at 25 yards.
Put the x hairs back on the aiming point and (without moving the rifle) crank the adjustments until the x hair is on the center of the bullet hole.
I make the adjustments while looking through the scope and if the gun wiggles you will see it and will be able to roughly correct for this.
Check your 100 yard zero and repeat.
Fine tune at 200.
The "tap it and try again" technique just isn't that precise on the factory irons i've worked with!
And who burns dogs? That's like spitting at God
Mount Sweetness
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Southern Ontario
Eat more celery
- Location
- Southern Vancouver Island
Filing & tappin' irons to get center is no worry to me. The only pee-off comes when I forget my close-up glasses for tinkerin' at a range session.
- Location
- Somewhere on the Hudson Bay Coast
Really? That's your opening post to a 4 year old thread?
How about this . . . If your rifle is equipped with a peep sight rear and rectangular post front sight, your groups might be tighter than with other types of iron sight. The flat top of the post provides a better index of elevation than a bead, and can in fact be used similarly to a cross hair in that the flat top is analogous to the horizontal wire and the vertical center, which is rapidly and accurately found by the human eye, is analogous to the vertical wire. If we then take this concept a step further, and choose a bullseye target which subtends to the width of the post at the bull's center, it's center being equal to the width of the post at range, both elevation and windage can be held to very small variations in hold, as any deviation from a dead center hold is immediately apparent, by the post appearing wider than the bull.
