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iron sights

rlfcjfrlfcjf Member Posts: 310 ✭✭✭
edited October 2001 in Ask the Experts
need to adjust the front sight on my marlin336 for windage. rear sight has no windage adjustments. is their any scientific way of knowing how much to tap the sight over one way or the other or is it just hit and miss and repeat again.
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  • rlfcjfrlfcjf Member Posts: 310 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have ordered a new set of Lyman sights for a Savage 30G. I seem to be suffering from a bad case of CRS and need to know which derection to remove the old sights from the dovetail. Any help will be mosy appreciated
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  • rrgunsrrguns Member Posts: 18 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    It don't take much. Yes just a quessing game. RRGUNS
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  • davem3davem3 Member Posts: 75 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Very simple to compute---sight radius x error divided by the distance (all in inches) will give the correction needed. Hard part is moving the sight the few thou. required.
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  • bsebastbsebast Member Posts: 190 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    A competent gunsmith can move the sight for you. First, select the ammo you want to use in the rifle. Then go to the range and post a bullseye target at 50 or 100 yards and shoot 5 or more shots using a sight picture you would like to use if the rifle were zeroed in, that is, aim at the bullseye. What you are doing is shooting for group. Say your rifle shoots 10 inches to the left--your group will be over on the left side of the target. Take that target and the rifle to the gunsmith and tell him the range you fired at. He will compute the distance (in thousands of an inch) the front sight needs to move in order for your group to be moved to the center. He will use a sight adjusting tool so as not to mar the rifle's finish, along with a dial micrometer, to move the sight.
    Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. Ephesians 4:29 bsebast@airmail.net
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  • rlfcjfrlfcjf Member Posts: 310 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    thanks guys:must have been hell in the old west days with not many gunsmiths around. But maybe back then the rifles came dead on right out of the box!
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  • spclarkspclark Member Posts: 408 ✭
    edited November -1
    ...or the Old Wester's could guesstimate how far off to aim to compensate for any given range, wind, lead, load, mirage, mount (as in horse, not 'scope), etc.Always wondered how those guys - in the movies - could hit an * at what looks like half a mile while riding AWAY from him, turned around in the saddle, shootin' with one hand. Guess they had better guns in those days.
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    They must have been better guns, because the six-shooters (at least the Hollywood ones) often held 10 or 12 shots at least.Thanks for this post, interesting stuff. I learn new things here all the time.
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  • modocmodoc Member Posts: 474 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Naw,It wasn't the guns,it was the script writer.
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