Last week I went retro and installed a Parker Hale PH25C rear sight on this BSA MKII. I had tried the sight earlier, it was not tight in the base, and I had no idea what the clicks were. So I took it off and installed an International Rear. Later I found the PH25C has 1/8 MOA clicks, which more or less explains why nothing was going on when I rotated the knobs! I also found a way to squeeze the base and remove most of the slop. I had to install an even higher front sight base, the British must have used a step ladder to see their sights, they are very high above the barrel.
I also shot my Remington M700 in 35 Whelen. This rifle is extremely light for the caliber and I do not shoot it well. I hope it is me and not the rifle. I can say, it totally knocks me out of position each and every shot.
I try to be as rigid as possible behind my rifles and I want the things to recoil same way each shot, and ideally, return to battery with the crosshairs where I broke the trigger. I can do that with my Smallbore Prone rifles. I can see with the Smallbore rifles when they recoil "funny" the bullet goes in that direction. But this monster, I get moved around, the rifle comes off the rest, the rest gets moved, my elbow is knocked out of position. Sometimes the scope smacks my shooting glasses. Fun, fun, fun. Good thing I already have
CTE or my brains would be getting damaged.
It has been just under 100F most of the time, and when the sun started peaking under the range roof, I decided to clear out before I burst into flames! I could have stayed an hour longer but it was not to be.