I've recently been widening rear sight notches on my rifles as it becomes more and more difficult to aim. After a disappointing outing with my SMR I opened the notch up a bit and will likely need to open it a little more. Then a more recent range trip with my sweet shooting .50. At 50 yards I just couldn't see well enough to make a decent group. There is a 12" gong at the 100 yd berm that is hard to make out after it gets shot too much. The club does keep a spray can of black paint just for the gong. I sprayed the gong with a good coat of paint and went back to the shelter/benches. I fired three shots at this, now very visible, target gong and could see the hits easily. At the berm I measured the 3-shot "group" which was a satisfying sub-5" spread. That's the difference between seeing the target well enough to align the front sight. In the past - when I could see - a 5-shot 3.5" group at 100 yards was the best I could do; So 5" ain't too bad. I widened the notch but will have to range test it again. Yeah, I know, it's tough work but someone's gotta do it.
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I understand your situation. For my .50 deer rifle, I acquired a new rear sight that had a blank but taller leaf than the original. Then I drilled a hole in it. I filed and shaped it to resemble the original sight (but with a ghost ring instead of a notch). One has to look closely at it to see that it is not an original style rear sight. Imagine a ghost ring but in the rear sight. Strangely, this improved my shooting capabilities immensely.
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Thank you, Boartooth. I like the idea of a ghost ring peep. I have them on a few cartridge shooters and love 'em. Just thinking on the how, where and what.
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I would be happy with a five inch group capability at 100 yards. That would mean that my ball was hitting within two and a half inches n whatever direction from my aiming point. I'm good with that. I don't have the same criteria for accuracy with my BP rifles as I do with my match service rifles. No reason for me to.
Originally posted by Kelly McDowell: I would be happy with a five inch group capability at 100 yards. That would mean that my ball was hitting within two and a half inches n whatever direction from my aiming point. I'm good with that. I don't have the same criteria for accuracy with my BP rifles as I do with my match service rifles. No reason for me to.
Shooting with a scope is easy-peasy; a bit too easy-peasy for me. That's the reason I switched to revolvers for hunting and shared time with muzzleloaders. Then going on 20 years ago I switched exclusively to flintlocks for deer and a little later for small game as well. I have three scoped cartridge rifles that consistently group 1/3" to 3/8" at 100 yards. Haven't fired them in a long, long time though. Those three are a .22 Hornet, .250/3000 and a .350 Rem Mag.
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