Varminterror
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I know this sounds stupid,
It’s not stupid. Folks have been shooting leverguns like this out to distances much farther than 200yrds for around 150 years, and firearms with even worse ballistics for even longer.
Frankly, the only reason I knew the BC you calculated above was way out of whack is because I’ve been doing this same thing for a long, long time. I shot 44mag for CAS/SASS - which is arguably stupid in itself - but that was coming up on 20yrs ago when I started, and we had LR side matches already back then. It would be around 25yrs ago the first time I would have shot a revolver cartridge levergun to 200yrds, then 250 within minutes thereafter, and attempted 300 within a few more… and a few more minutes, I was sending rounds from my 7.5” Super Blackhawk at the same target distances, and doing much of the same math as I described above to decide how much I would need to raise that rear sight to get there. At one point, I even had a longer screw and an aluminum shim to let me raise my rear sight even higher, rather than swapping to a shorter front blade, and I was notching white lines into the back of my front sight for more and more reach… which I’m told is a technique as old as the West.
The tools you’re seeking already exist, because we already do this. We already have tang ladder sights and fold-up aperture peeps, calibrated and adjustable sights, replaceable front blades of differing heights, stripe-back front sights, etc… You can order this stuff online at big box retailers, ready to go off of the shelf, because we do it, and we need the tools to get it done. So it’s not stupid. It ain’t easy, not as easy as shooting those distances with a modern bolt action in a high pressure bottleneck cartridge - hell, it’s easier to shoot 600yrds with a modern set up than 200yrds with a revolver cartridge levergun, but it’s still fun.