InTheBlack
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Here's something that might be part of my difficulty in high power prone. Since I have only shot at 100 yards, I haven't given any thought to the height of the rear sight and its effect on how much you have to tilt your head forward to get your eye lined up.
In _The Competetive AR 15_ Lew Tippie has a chapter, and on pg 265 he says he likes to adjust the front sight height so that the rear sight is about 20 clicks up from the bottom for the standing position (quarter minute clicks).
Now my gun is basically the way Bushmaster sent it to me, and I don't need to change the elevation for the 100 yard reduced course. The half-minute sight is 12 clicks up from being bottomed out (on the number "6"). I might change for light, but not much.
I'm beginning to think that my rear sight is very low ???
My sight is 25 clicks/revolution. How many clicks/rev is a quarter minute sight?
Tippie says his slow prone height is about 70 clicks from the bottom. That would be 35 clicks on my sight vs where it is now at 12.
Zedicker (pg 88) makes the point that a lower aperture makes it easier to deep "decent face pressure against the stock" and recommends "more like 15" minutes at 600 yards. That would be 60 of Tippies clicks, so I guess they are both in the same ballpark.
Match tomorrow; maybe I'll raise the front sight a couple of revolutions (=9.6 MOA) and bring the rear up to about 32 clicks.
In _The Competetive AR 15_ Lew Tippie has a chapter, and on pg 265 he says he likes to adjust the front sight height so that the rear sight is about 20 clicks up from the bottom for the standing position (quarter minute clicks).
Now my gun is basically the way Bushmaster sent it to me, and I don't need to change the elevation for the 100 yard reduced course. The half-minute sight is 12 clicks up from being bottomed out (on the number "6"). I might change for light, but not much.
I'm beginning to think that my rear sight is very low ???
My sight is 25 clicks/revolution. How many clicks/rev is a quarter minute sight?
Tippie says his slow prone height is about 70 clicks from the bottom. That would be 35 clicks on my sight vs where it is now at 12.
Zedicker (pg 88) makes the point that a lower aperture makes it easier to deep "decent face pressure against the stock" and recommends "more like 15" minutes at 600 yards. That would be 60 of Tippies clicks, so I guess they are both in the same ballpark.
Match tomorrow; maybe I'll raise the front sight a couple of revolutions (=9.6 MOA) and bring the rear up to about 32 clicks.