Rear Sight?

[Chris Cade]

looking into installing a rear sight on my SxS cva shotgun to raise the poi when using prb. does anyone have a suggestion as to which type/style of sight would work the best?? i'm looking at track of the wolf and brownell's sights trying to figure out which one to choose.

 

[Ft. Jefferson]

Try wrapping a piece of leather around the forearm. About 3/8s wide by 16"s long? You can move it forward or back as needed for elevation and remove it as necessary.

 

[paulvallandigham]

The Bead front sight on that gun is NOT a very good sight to use for shooting RBs accuracy, IMHO. And, being centered, you have the added problem of regulating the barrels to get the balls to hit at the same point of aim at some chosen distance from the muzzle. Most of these CVA guns were never meant to be used with RBs. They are not regulated for Shot loads, much for RBs.

I would first try shooting RBs out of each barrel to see what kind of best group either will fire. Only if I found at least ONE barrel shot RBs accurately out to 50 yards, would I bother tackling the sight issue. Where the Balls impact will largely guide you on how to solve the problem of choosing the right kind of sight.

Don't get the cart too far ahead of the horse with these kind of projects. They will be frustrating work for you enough, just approaching the work systematically. :hmm: :thumbsup: Your CVA shotgun is NO KODIAK double rifle. Its not built from strong materials, nor are the barrels the same weight and diameter you find on the Kodiak. That doesn't mean it can't shoot RBs from at least one barrel well enough to take Whitetail deer, but it does mean that you need to focus on finding the most accurate load, rather than the fastest load. A 12 gauge ball is going to pass through any whitetail you are likely to shoot. :shocked2:

 

[Stumpkiller]

If you install a single rear sight you'll have to have a way to regulate each barrel. That's why double rifles cost as much as Toyotas. Even then the balls will only cross at one range and be off horizontally at other ranges.

The cheap fix is to install two folding rear sights and adjust each one independently and flip up only the one you need. CVA used that in their Kodiak.

 

[Chris Cade]

a friend, who had a double barrel like mine, deer hunts with a rb in one barrel and buckshot in the other. i'm starting to lean in this direction for hunting. i'm hoping to figure out which barrel is the most accurate this weekend with a rb and get ready for the opening day of muzzleloader season in just under three weeks.

 

[August West]

Don't how much experience you have with buckshot but I have never had much luck with it. I would carry both barrels loaded with ball if it were me. Chris

 

[missionary5155]

Good morning
Paul has good advice .. try it first with RB.. I have played with RB in doubles for years and the two barrels are gonna throw RB in all sorts of directions. But one will be better. My generalised conclusion is one barrel will for sure get you to 35 yards consistently. Some are better but the barrels are too short for real fine aiming out past 40 yards. And as Paul mentioned that bead is not condusive to fine aiming out far.
A temperary rear sight solution is black tape with a white reference mark. Or any tape with a line on it but that reference mark will take the guess out of lining up the barrel for the next shot.
Buck shot is a deadly load out to 15-20 yards. I hunt corn crunchers with a recurve and probably half of the dozen+ could have been taken with buchshot and for sure all with RB.

 

[Chris Cade]

i do about 90% of my deer hunting with a bow, but i love the challenge of figuring out how to "milk" the best performance out of this gun. managed to keep a rb in a 8" plate this weekend with the right barrel but couldn't get the left to pattern as good. the left barrel did keep nine 0 buckshot in a deer size area at 35 yards using paul's greased cloth wad technique and stacking the shot so they wouldn't touch going down the barrel.

 

[missionary5155]

Well sounds like you are getting a winning combination. But remember keeping buckshot on a deer sized target does not mean it would kill that deer. You still want numerous pellets traversing the vitals. I would use the paper plate rule... 4-5 pellets in the plate mean another bean browser getting ate.