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Sighting for 100 yds

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Topic: Sighting for 100 yds

Posted By: trimix
Subject: Sighting for 100 yds
Date Posted: February 02 2013 at 9:31pm

I'm having trouble sighting my #4 for 100yds (local range). I have a milled ladder sight, which only goes down to 200 plus a couple unmarked clicks (150?)

I suppose I should look into getting a taller front sight. Has anybody done this, and knows which size is correct to mount on the nose?

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yeah...whatever.

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Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: February 03 2013 at 12:57am

Its an individual rifle tuning thing, so, unfortunately the "right" one is unique to each rifle.

However each 0.015" change in front sight height gives a 2" shift in poi @ 100 yds, so you can sort it out by shooting a 3 round group very carefully with the sights set to "2". Plot the center of the 3-shot group, then take away the 2 1/4" change for 100~200yds, add what's left & divide by 2. The answer is the number of 0.015" increments of the front sight you need.

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