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[queball]

when your looking at the barrel sight and the screw says up does that mean that will raise your point of impact if you turn it up? second is there such a thing as an open sight target ..if there is then what size would the entire black circle be? 4 inches 6 inches etc. @ 100 yrds and thirdly let me ask when you are done cleaning your barrel and put it back together do you store your rifle barrel muzzle up or down? fourthly change my name to moved :blah:

 

If you move the back sight up it will raise the shot up.I guess what Im tryin to say is turn the screw to the left.My barrells are stored sideways on a rack.For the rest of your questions someone else is gonna have to answer that :grin:

 

[roundball]

when your looking at the barrel sight and the screw says up does that mean that will raise your point of impact if you turn it up?

If you're talking about the rear sight, yes.

second is there such a thing as an open sight target ..if there is then what size would the entire black circle be? 4 inches 6 inches etc. @ 100 yrds and thirdly let me ask when you are done cleaning your barrel and put it back together do you store your rifle barrel muzzle up or down? fourthly change my name to moved :blah:

Others will have to handle the paper target questions...I shoot steel hangers, cans, aim point stickers, etc

 

[TANSTAAFL]

When sighting in, whichever way one moves the rear sight, point of projectile impact will change in that direction.

Front sight will be just the opposite, move it, and point of impact will go the other way.

 

[paulvallandigham]

There are certain kinds of sights made to use in firing at certain sized bullseyes at certain distance. Mostly, these are the kind of closed target sights you see on olympic style rifles, with both an aperture rear, and an aperature FRONT sight! there are different sized inserts that you can put in the front sight to match the size bullseye on your target.

With open sights, the only thing close to that is the custom of rifle makers to put either a "6 inch bead " or an "8 inch bead ", which means that 100 yds, the bead on the front sight covers either 6 or 8 inches on the target.

Most sights on muzzle loading rifles are straight Posts, with no bead on top. The rear sight is a notch, mostly " V " shaped, but sometimes " U " shaped, and even rarer, square shaped.

You will find that leaving daylight showing around the bront sight as you look through that rear sight will give you the clearest focus of the front sight. The rear sight should be slightly blurred, and that bullseye should be even more blurred when you shoot. With rifles, handguns, and smoothbores shooting RB, your focus must be on your front sight when the gun fires. With shotguns and smoothbores shooting shot, at moving targets, whether clay, or live birds, your focus should be on the bird, and not the bead on the front of the barrel.

On the question about directions on knobs, if the knob has the word " Up " engraved in it, turn the knob in the direction that you read the word to raise the sight. This is often counterclockwise, but not always.

I you use oils to lube your barrel after cleaning, you might be better off storing the gun muzzle down. You would be better off using a good lube, like Bore butter to coat your barrel. Always check your barrel a couple of days after you clean and lube it for storage. With a good grease or solid lube, like bore butter, you can store your gun anyway you prefer. With oil, you don't want oil running down the barrel out the vent, or nipple, and then dripping down on your stock. It makes the wood soft, and leads to eventual problems. If you store the gun on its muzzle, put a rag down to rest it on to catch the oil that comes out. Since I can't bend over to pick those things up much anymore, I avoid the mess and use bore butter to lube my barrel.

 

Dang, Pual I learn somthin new everytime I read your posts.Could you file each side of the front sight equal on both sides to have a finer bead?My GPR's have a thick front sight that really covers a target at 100 yards.

 

[silverfox]

Yes you can file both sides of the front sight to make it thinner. That's a lot of fine work but if you can do it go ahead. Tape the barrel so you don't slip with the file and scratch it.
Now if it was me I would check with TOW and just replace the front sight with a thinner one. I just got back from the range and told a couple of guys they needed to thin the front or open the rear sight a little. Since you say yours is to thick you already know what you have to do.
Fox :thumbsup:
Good luck you could also just file one side and get the same result a thinner post.

 

[paulvallandigham]

YOu can also find replacement front sights at Brownells with smaller beads.

While I am giving out secrets let me tell you all how to properly use a post sight blade. Pistol shooter have to learn to do this if they want to use an open sighted gun to shoot long range targets, because the front blade on most handguns is very thick, or wide.

You have to train your brain to run a imaginary line down the center of that post, rather than looking at the whole post. Then align that imaginary line on the center of your target, and adjust the back and forth swing of your sight, if shooting off-hand, to put that imaginary line in that centered position at the moment the gun fires. You can do this same " Trick " with any front sight, including fat bead sights. Those large bead are a help in poor light, and at close ranges, such as shooting deer in the early morning or late evening at under 50 yds in river bottoms, or timber. Before you go filing them down, think long an hard what you intend to use that gun for. If its a target gun, I would simply replace the front sight. If it is for hunting, then I would take the gun out in early mornings, and see what advantage that large bead may give me with that gun under those light conditions.

BTW, I don't sight through an open rear sight any differently than I do a peep, or aperature sight. I prefer lots of daylight in htat rear sight notch around my front sight, as it allows my eye to center the bead, or top of the front sight, that my eye is focused on. I find when the notch is too closed, my eye will not center that front sight in the rear, making me have to look back and forth from front to rear sight to get my sights aligned, and then on to the target, and back to the front sight to fire. Like anyone else, doing increases the likelihood that I will be focused on the target, or my rear sight, rather than that front sight, and blow the shot. Even with a scope, you can tell if you fail to focus on the crosshairs of your scope by the present of two distinct groups on target, close, but separate from each other. Many shooter spend years looking for mistakes or changes in loading components, when the only problem is they are looking at the target, rather than their sight some of the time.

 

Makes sense.Thanks again Paul :thumbsup:

 

[gcebulka]

There are certain kinds of sights...

Paul,
Great post. Thanks!

 

[gcebulka]

when your looking at the barrel sight and the screw says up does that mean that will raise your point of impact if you turn it up? second is there such a thing as an open sight target ..if there is then what size would the entire black circle be? 4 inches 6 inches etc. @ 100 yrds and thirdly let me ask when you are done cleaning your barrel and put it back together do you store your rifle barrel muzzle up or down? fourthly change my name to moved :blah:

The following link might be helpful.[url] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_sights[/url]
It explains a bit about iron sights and adjustments thereof

 

[gcebulka]

when your looking at the barrel sight and the screw says up does that mean that will raise your point of impact if you turn it up? second is there such a thing as an open sight target ..if there is then what size would the entire black circle be? 4 inches 6 inches etc. @ 100 yrds and thirdly let me ask when you are done cleaning your barrel and put it back together do you store your rifle barrel muzzle up or down? fourthly change my name to moved :blah:

The following link might be helpful.[url] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_sights[/url]
It explains a bit about iron sights and adjustments thereof