Sighting in smoothbore

[ohiostate]

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.

[chuck-ia]

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

[ohiostate]

Sorry.  It does have a rear sight.

[WadePatton]

"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.

[hanshi]

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.

[ohiostate]

He was the only one shooting it.