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I put a Williams peep sight on my T/C Hawken. With the peep bottomed out I am hitting 9 in high at 50 yds. Looking over the situation I think my solution is to install a higher front sight. My factory sight is 3/8" high measured from the top of the barrel flat to the top of the sight. After reading R Ellis post I am correcting the total height to be from the dovetail bottom to top sight at 7/16". The sight radius is 31". Of course I want to be able to raise the peep up a bit to allow for some adjustment after the new sight is in. I know I've seen some of you math wizards calculate a correct sight height before. Can someone calculate a correct height for me to (hopefully) purchase? Any other suggestions also welcome other than inletting wood.
 
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I put a Williams peep sight on my T/C Hawken. With the peep bottomed out I am hitting 9 in high at 50 yds. Looking over the situation I think my solution is to install a higher front sight. My factory sight is 3/8" high measured from the top of the barrel flat to the top of the sight. After reading R Ellis post I am correcting the total height to be from the dovetail bottom to top sight at 7/16". The sight radius is 31". Of course I want to be able to raise the peep up a bit to allow for some adjustment after the new sight is in. I know I've seen some of you math wizards calculate a correct sight height before. Can someone calculate a correct height for me to (hopefully) purchase? Any other suggestions also welcome other than inletting wood.
Near 18 minutes of adjustment seems like quite a bit of adjustment, but it can be accomplished. I’ll save you the math and just give you the magic number of .155”. You need to in combination lower your rear sight and/or raise your front sight .155”. Figure .0172” per inch at 50 yards with a 31” sight radius.
 
Near 18 minutes of adjustment seems like quite a bit of adjustment, but it can be accomplished. I’ll save you the math and just give you the magic number of .155”. You need to in combination lower your rear sight and/or raise your front sight .155”. Figure .0172” per inch at 50 yards with a 31” sight radius.
.155 will at best give him 9 inch correction, but he would like to raise peep sight slightly.
 
I put a Williams peep sight on my T/C Hawken. With the peep bottomed out I am hitting 9 in high at 50 yds. Looking over the situation I think my solution is to install a higher front sight. My factory sight is 3/8" high measured from the top of the barrel flat to the top of the sight. After reading R Ellis post I am correcting the total height to be from the dovetail bottom to top sight at 7/16". The sight radius is 31". Of course I want to be able to raise the peep up a bit to allow for some adjustment after the new sight is in. I know I've seen some of you math wizards calculate a correct sight height before. Can someone calculate a correct height for me to (hopefully) purchase? Any other suggestions also welcome other than inletting wood.
When you get a chance can you post a picture. I’ve been thinking about a Williams sight for my TC Hawken also.
 
The T/C stocks have little drop
A too-straight stock requires higher sights like the ones that they put on at the factory. I once took the sights off of a T/C Hawken and replaced with traditional sights, the kind that go into a dovetail. I found out could not get my head low enough to see through the rear sight.
 
You guys are going to throw rocks at me and that’s fine and probably advisable. But back in the day I was getting new guns if the sights needed significant adjustment I’d send the barrel back to the maker, along with a sample target and they would bend the barrel accordingly. That’s the way the early gunsmiths sighted in the guns before delivery. I’ve never seen early originals with sights drifted excessively or sight height unusual. Just my worthless two cents.
 
Here’s a sight calculator I’ve used before that worked amazingly well.

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Looks complicated but so easy, even an old redneck can do it…👍
 
I agree with Stubshaft. I have also soldered a higher blade to a low back sight.
T/C stocks are cut straight for a high scope mount.
Exactly. Thats the reason I could never warm up to them. The straight stocks just don't have the soul of a graceful, close-to-original Hawken.
 
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