Silver Bullet
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Actually, my first rifle ever.
I’m going through the steps: 1) I bore sighted the rifle; 2) I sighted in the rifle at 50 yards; 3) I attempted to sight in at 100 yards.
I say “attempted” because my rifle shooting skills are too poor to get a tight enough group at 100 yards to make any meaningful adjustments for shooting 3” high. Out of 40 shots I only placed 30 into the 8” black part of the target. I decided at that point that I need to focus on getting much tighter groups before I resume adjusting the sights.
( If it’s this much fun now, I’m thinking it’s going to be really fun when I’m shooting better. )
I feel like I’m doing a fairly good job of keeping the front sight on the target (the bead diameter appears about the same as the target black diameter), but I suspect I’m not centering the bead into the peep aperture consistently. For this reason, I’m considering getting a smaller inner diameter aperture to work with while I’m doing this target work.
Three questions.
1) Looking at Williams’ catalog, I see I can get an aperture with 0.050” inner diameter versus the standard 0.093”. Sounds good. However, there is a wide range of outer diameters: 3/8, ½, and 1 inch. Williams designates the 1” OD, 0.050” ID as the “target” aperture. What is the advantage of the larger outer diameter ?
2) The different apertures should sight the same, correct ? That is, if I sight in the peep with a 0.050” ID aperture, when I replace it with a 0.093” or even a 0.125 “hunting” aperture, the other apertures should be still lined up, and not require sighting in again ?
3) I shot these 40 shots in the space of a half hour. The barrel was too warm to touch towards the end of the session. How much effect does that have in accuracy ? It seemed to me that I was shooting tighter at the beginning than the end, and I don’t know if that was because of the barrel heating up or because as I fatigued I had more of a tendency to blink just before firing the shot.
There were about fifteen other shooters, and I noticed they were all using scopes. My next rifle will have a scope, but I want to use a peep on this one.
Sorry to ask such embarrassingly stupid questions, but forums like this are a great place to learn, IMHO. (You know what they say ... “There are no stupid questions, just stupid questioners” )
I’m going through the steps: 1) I bore sighted the rifle; 2) I sighted in the rifle at 50 yards; 3) I attempted to sight in at 100 yards.
I say “attempted” because my rifle shooting skills are too poor to get a tight enough group at 100 yards to make any meaningful adjustments for shooting 3” high. Out of 40 shots I only placed 30 into the 8” black part of the target. I decided at that point that I need to focus on getting much tighter groups before I resume adjusting the sights.
( If it’s this much fun now, I’m thinking it’s going to be really fun when I’m shooting better. )
I feel like I’m doing a fairly good job of keeping the front sight on the target (the bead diameter appears about the same as the target black diameter), but I suspect I’m not centering the bead into the peep aperture consistently. For this reason, I’m considering getting a smaller inner diameter aperture to work with while I’m doing this target work.
Three questions.
1) Looking at Williams’ catalog, I see I can get an aperture with 0.050” inner diameter versus the standard 0.093”. Sounds good. However, there is a wide range of outer diameters: 3/8, ½, and 1 inch. Williams designates the 1” OD, 0.050” ID as the “target” aperture. What is the advantage of the larger outer diameter ?
2) The different apertures should sight the same, correct ? That is, if I sight in the peep with a 0.050” ID aperture, when I replace it with a 0.093” or even a 0.125 “hunting” aperture, the other apertures should be still lined up, and not require sighting in again ?
3) I shot these 40 shots in the space of a half hour. The barrel was too warm to touch towards the end of the session. How much effect does that have in accuracy ? It seemed to me that I was shooting tighter at the beginning than the end, and I don’t know if that was because of the barrel heating up or because as I fatigued I had more of a tendency to blink just before firing the shot.
There were about fifteen other shooters, and I noticed they were all using scopes. My next rifle will have a scope, but I want to use a peep on this one.
Sorry to ask such embarrassingly stupid questions, but forums like this are a great place to learn, IMHO. (You know what they say ... “There are no stupid questions, just stupid questioners” )