diogenes_RN
Member
Hey everybody,
I'm not new to guns, but I'm sort of new to hunting. I've been shooting all my life (30 now) but I've mostly been a handgunner and shotgunner up until this point. I've shot all kinds of rifles for fun here and there, but I've never been overly concerned with shooting them accurately. The few rifles that I've really tried to shoot for accuracy have all had optic sights. I need some help with the iron kind.
I recently picked up a winchester model 1894 30-30 to use on feral hogs during the Alabama feral hog special season in September, and deer in the Fall. It's got the old semi buck horn sights. I shot it today and I love it, but it shoots high about 2 inches and to the left about 5-6 inches. Through trial and error I was able to walk a few shots onto a 4" orange disc at about 25 yards, but I'm having a hard time with the sight picture.
It takes me a while to line them up, and I'm not sure whether I'm supposed to line up the front blade with the tops of the rear horns, or bury the blade in the notch.
I read in the new 1894 manual that I can tap the rear sight to the right with a wood dowel and a mallet. Is that correct for a model made in 1982? Would I be better off installing a peep sight? It's been drilled and tapped for a scope mount, would those holes work for a receiver mounted peep sight? Are skinner sights any good?
Can anybody help out here? Feral hogs get awful large down here, and I'd rather not get into hand to hand combat with one if I can help it. I'm hoping I can dial this thing in and make pigs DRT.
Any help would be much appreciated.
-Matt
I'm not new to guns, but I'm sort of new to hunting. I've been shooting all my life (30 now) but I've mostly been a handgunner and shotgunner up until this point. I've shot all kinds of rifles for fun here and there, but I've never been overly concerned with shooting them accurately. The few rifles that I've really tried to shoot for accuracy have all had optic sights. I need some help with the iron kind.
I recently picked up a winchester model 1894 30-30 to use on feral hogs during the Alabama feral hog special season in September, and deer in the Fall. It's got the old semi buck horn sights. I shot it today and I love it, but it shoots high about 2 inches and to the left about 5-6 inches. Through trial and error I was able to walk a few shots onto a 4" orange disc at about 25 yards, but I'm having a hard time with the sight picture.
It takes me a while to line them up, and I'm not sure whether I'm supposed to line up the front blade with the tops of the rear horns, or bury the blade in the notch.
I read in the new 1894 manual that I can tap the rear sight to the right with a wood dowel and a mallet. Is that correct for a model made in 1982? Would I be better off installing a peep sight? It's been drilled and tapped for a scope mount, would those holes work for a receiver mounted peep sight? Are skinner sights any good?
Can anybody help out here? Feral hogs get awful large down here, and I'd rather not get into hand to hand combat with one if I can help it. I'm hoping I can dial this thing in and make pigs DRT.
Any help would be much appreciated.
-Matt
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