Front sight filing?

[Zonie]

On a blued or browned front sight I use a cold bluing agent like Birchwood Casey Perma Blue.

On silver or German Silver front sights I don't use anything after filing them.

 

[garra]

Danny,

I have an excel spread sheet which calculates the height you need. When I first offered it to members there was a bit of pushback, but it does give you a good idea of the height of the front sight. Best part you can play with the distance and velocity to see what sight height will work best to cover a range of distances. You will need MS excel to make it work, pm me to send it to you.

gg

 

[Rifleman1776]

value (the sine of 1 minute of angle - .00029)from trigonometry

Sez it all. Wat else do you need to know? :rotf:

Seriously, if you are dead on at 50 yards there are two steps you can take to find center at 100. And you can leave the file at home. Trying increasing your charge and see if that puts you on center. Or, do like you are supposed to do before you can get your muzzle loaders gold star. :wink: 'kentucky' your hold. Learn your rifle. Hold high at 100 and see where your ball impacts. Not hard. All you have to do is shoot and that is the fun part. After a while it will become second nature. BTW, this is a family friendly forum. You are not supposed to use words like "trigonometry" here. :shake: :wink:

 

[Billnpatti]

"BTW, this is a family friendly forum. You are not supposed to use words like "trigonometry" here."

Oh Wow! I guess calculas and Boolean algebra would be completely out of the question, then. :rotf:

 

[chazz1975]

Thanks for posting this Zonie. I copied this to a text file. Love all the knowledge and assistance I can get on this forum.

Pay attention to old guys. Old guys know stuff.

 

[ol vern]

Instead of masking tape,get a piece of leather about 2x4 inches
cut a slot in the middle and poke the sight through. This will protect the barrel and not when you are finished you don't have to mess cleaning the tape off the barrel.

 

[Col. Batguano]

Good idea.

When I've filed sights at the range I've been mostly concerned with the elevation of the front sight rather than the full contour. Once I get the elevation right I can shoot, and worry about getting the rest of the contour just right (it's mostly aesthetic anyway) when I bring it home, and have a proper vice to put it in for that.

 

[Idaho Elk Hunter]

My Lyman GPR that I bought new in 2004 was shooting pretty low at 30 yds...like 6 to 8 inches low right out of the box. I had to file almost a third of the front sight off in order to bring it up enough to be 1 inch high at 50 yds now.

 

[M. De Land]

I like it and usually use a couple of layers of duct tape much the same way as you described leather.
Thanks for the tip, should have thought of it years ago. :grin:

 

[newtewsmoke]

I had to file almost a third of the front sight off in order to bring it up enough to be 1 inch high at 50 yds now.

i had the same experience also, ditched the file for a small fine wheeled 'lectric grinder to remove the bulk of the material(much care was used)! :wink:
Lyman trade rifle didn't need any sight filing however. :idunno:

 

[Billnpatti]

Oooooh, Wow!!! You really are a risk taker. Those electric doo hickies can eat metal, wood and almost anything else very rapidly and you can mess something up in a real quick great big hurry. I have one and I keep it locked in a box far from my work when I am working on any of my guns. When working on my sights, I use only my fine file and work slowly and carefully even if I know that I need to remove a good bit of sight material. That electric devil just eats stuff way too fast for me for doing delicate work. Been there, done that one time too many. :cursing:

 

[newtewsmoke]

ya it had me sweatin bullitz! but went slow & careful and it went smooth :wink: it was obvious alot of metal needed remooved or wooda just used a file :v

 

[Rifleman1776]

Amen, Bro. :thumbsup:

 

[pwbsmokey]

Around the thickness of a pillow ticking patch.,, not a lot of material, take it slow.