GPR FIXED REAR SIGHT

[shaggyshooter]

I could use some help if you you dont mind helping a newbe. I would like to get a fixed rear sight for my GPR that is tall enough to make two notches. One for short range,one for long. I dont mind redoing it to fit my metric dovetail.Also,when they list sights with a height mesurment do they mean the total or the mesurment from the top of the dovetail to the top of the sight? THANKS. Shaggy :huh:

 

[Bushwhacker]

One for short range,one for long

WHY??? :: how long distances to you think you can shoot accurately? :redthumb:

 

[noahmercy]

How do, Shag'. What I plan on doing and what I've seen others do is to use a full buckhorn rear sight. By judiciously filing the front sight, you can use the notch in the bottom as, say, your 50 yard sight. Then the open area of the buckhorn can be used like a ghost ring out to 75 or 80 yards. Finally, by lining the front sight up with the tips of the buckhorn, you have a long range sight picture- maybe 125 yards. These yardages are dependent on your load and the sight's dimensions as well as the barrel length...you will have to determine the yardage for each of these sight pictures by shooting.

 

[Stumpkiller]

Now Bushwacker may have seemed a bit recalcitrant, but he has a point.

I sight in 2-1/2" high at 50 yards. That puts me on at 20 and on again at 75 yards, and about 3" low at 100. At 120 I hold on the ridge of a deer's back and beyond that I just wait for a better opportunity to come along.

If you've got time to flip a sight, you've got time to think out a proper hold-over. A friend and I used to hunt groundhogs out to 200 yards with .36 cal rifles. That worked out to be target on the top of the front sight and half the blade of the front sight above the horizontal of the rear sight. Somewhere down range those balls were falling within a 20" circle just from the group size standpoint, so connecting usually depended on a groundhog having just insulted a gypsy or having a unfavorable horoscope.

The hard part was judging the distance in the first place. With my 2-1/2" high at 50 yards I can aim at the center of a deer's lungs and fill the meat pole out past 100 yards without any forther thought. Where I hunt an opportunity often comes and goes in two seconds. Remembering to cock the hammer is enough complication for me.

I had a Browning .22LR lever-action with a flip rear sight and MANY times I tried to shoot a running rabbit with the rear sight laying flat on the barrel. I kept bumping it with my hand when carrying the gun. :curse: That's the only complaint I have with my T/C New Englander. The rear sight is in the palm of your hand when carrying the rifle at the balance point.

 

[shaggyshooter]

HEY NOAH MERCY,and OLD SALT. Great idea,s. I will try both of them. Noah, sounds great for P/C. SALT, yours would be great at the range. OR are they both P/C? Any idea were to get e,m? THANK,S ALOT...SHAGGY. P/S Ihear LYMAN,S makes a fixed rear sight,but I have never seen one. Would this work as a two plane sight????.THANKS...Shaggy. :thumbsup: