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ohiostate
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Sighting in smoothbore
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October 09, 2012, 12:41:30 AM »
Helping a friend sight in a new smoothbore, .62 calibre. Got it to shoot a 2" spread at 25 yards but when we shot at 50 yards it was 5" high. This surprised us, as we thought it would shoot lower. Any thoughts? Thank you.
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chuck-ia
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Re: Sighting in smoothbore
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October 09, 2012, 01:13:31 AM »
When talking smoothbore, I allways assume no rear sight? If no rear sight I would think the gun would have to be shot a lot to get used to it. For me anyway. chuck
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ohiostate
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Re: Sighting in smoothbore
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October 09, 2012, 03:33:19 AM »
Sorry. It does have a rear sight.
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WadePatton
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Re: Sighting in smoothbore
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October 09, 2012, 05:41:27 AM »
"we"?
are you both shooting it? that would complicate interpretation of the targets/load.
Probably (how would i know?) should develop a better load at 25. 2" automatically gets you 4 at 50, and i hear that those things will do better than that...most especially with a rear sight. or i could be wronge. i was once before.
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hanshi
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Re: Sighting in smoothbore
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October 09, 2012, 06:39:07 AM »
My smoothbore has a rear sight and was around 7" high at 50 yards. I just filed the rear sight down until it hit on target at 50yds. It always did fine at 25 just as yours did.
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ohiostate
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Re: Sighting in smoothbore
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October 10, 2012, 12:28:13 AM »
He was the only one shooting it.
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