I have been waiting a couple of weeks for a trophy shop to engrave a masonic logo in the butt plate of my new .54 Flintlock.
With it being the end of the school year he has just been covered up so I gave up and picked up my parts this morning.
I finished fitting the butt plate, patch box and stepped out into the yard to start working on the sights.
First shot at 25 yards was 4" left and 3" low so I bumped the front sight over and filed some off of it before backing up to 50 yards.
The next two shots were in the bullseye but lower than I wanted so I filed a little more off and put one just like I like.
I backed out to 100 and fired two more. With my tired old eyes I don't expect much at 100 but figured it would help fine tune the left and right.
They were as close as I could hope for so I am calling it good for today.
I don't believe I have ever sighted an open sight rifle with so few rounds fired.
Colonel Whelen once said "Only accurate rifles are interesting"
With it being the end of the school year he has just been covered up so I gave up and picked up my parts this morning.
I finished fitting the butt plate, patch box and stepped out into the yard to start working on the sights.
First shot at 25 yards was 4" left and 3" low so I bumped the front sight over and filed some off of it before backing up to 50 yards.
The next two shots were in the bullseye but lower than I wanted so I filed a little more off and put one just like I like.
I backed out to 100 and fired two more. With my tired old eyes I don't expect much at 100 but figured it would help fine tune the left and right.
They were as close as I could hope for so I am calling it good for today.
I don't believe I have ever sighted an open sight rifle with so few rounds fired.
Colonel Whelen once said "Only accurate rifles are interesting"