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Rifle Sight Adjustment 
Efficient Shooting Depends Upon 
Correct Alignment of Sights 
By WILLIS O. C.eELCEIS 
HE idea that a rifle barrel is 
‘i bored so that the bullet rises 
when it leaves the muzzle is a 
fallacy. The bore runs straight through 
the center of the barrel and the moment 
the bullet quits the muzzle it begins 
falling to the earth, although the drop 
at the muzzle is very slight indeed. In 
order to point the barrel so the bullet 
will strike at some desired place, sights 
are employed; and upon the sight ad- 
justment depends the accuracy and use- 
fulness of the arm. Sights are not, 
therefore, a fixed part of the rifle and 
are adjustable so the shooter can com- 
pel the gun to shoot where he wants 
it to shoot. 
In shooting, the shots go high, low, to 
the right or left of the desired place. 
And every shooter should know how to 
adjust the sights of his rifle. To go 
after any game without first trying 
out your gun and making such sight 
adjustments as may be necessary, is 
the height of folly. Many a wary buck 
owes his life to the fact that the hunter 
firing at him did so without properly 
adjusted rifle sights. Not all misses 
are due to poor holding. 
Open Sights: All sights drive in from 
right to left and out from left to right 
with the muzzle of the gun pointing 
from you. If the sight base is held in 
place with a screw, this should be loos- 
ened before adjusting. 
- | T)° not strike the sight with a steel 
hammer. Use a copper hammer 
or, better still, a short brass rod to 
pound against. A piece of brass clean- 
ing rod is hard to beat. If the sight 
is too tight, dress the base with a fine 
three-cornered file. It is not advisable 
to enlarge the barrel slot by filing. If 
the sight is too loose, use strips of thin 
paper to build out the base, or care- 
fully hammer down the barrel slot. 
The sight should fit tightly, but should 
not require hard pounding to seat it. 
When sighting in a rifle, see that it 
is not loaded and set the front sight 
so the bead or blade seems to be exactly 
over the center of the barrel. This is 
important. Now secure an easy sitting 
position with a rest for the back, the 
gun held in the left hand, the left arm 
being extended and supported by a rest. 
This approximates off-hand shooting— 
the kind done in hunting. A _ high- 
power rifle shoots higher when resting 
the barrel on a solid support than when 
fired off-hand. If the shots go low, 
It will identify you. 
raise the rear sight; if they go high, 
lower the rear sight. If the shots 
strike to the left, move the rear sight 
to the right or the front sight to the 
left; if they go to the right, move the 
rear sight to the left or the front sight 
to the right or the front sight to the 
be over the center of the barrel and all 
adjustments made with the rear sight. 
If the rifle still shoots high with the 
rear sight at its lowest position, filing 
the rear notch deeper or a higher front 
sight will be necessary. The higher 
front sight is preferable. If the shots 
go low with the rear sight at its highest 
elevation, a lower front sight will cor- 
rect the trouble, or if the front sight 
has a blade it may be filed down. 
Note the positions of the rear sight 
at the various distances you target the 
gun. This will come in handy when 
you wish to shoot again at these ranges. 
Peep Sights: First, see that the open 
sights are correctly aligned so that the 
shots go neither to the right nor left. 
Then attach the rear peep sight and, 
if necessary, bolster up one side of the 
base with strips of paper until the 
center of the aperture lines up with 
the front sight and the rear sight notch. 
Next, drive out the front sight and put 
in the new one, adjusting it until it is 
in line with the aperture in the peep 
sight and the notch in the rear sight. 
If the open sight adjustment is cor- 
rect, the new sights are now properly 
aligned as far as lateral movement is 
concerned, but if the front sight is of 
a different height than the sight re- 
moved, the rear sight must be raised 
or lowered to offset this. The next 
step is to get rid of the open rear sight 
which should always be removed. Re- 
place it with a folding leaf sight having 
an adjustable notch piece. Now adjust 
the sight laterally so it is in alignment 
with the front sight and the rear peep, 
the proper height being obtained by the 
adjustable notch piece. 
O far you have not fired a single 
shot, but if the open sights were 
right your gun will now shoot very 
nearly right provided, of course, that 
the work has been done with care and 
accuracy. 
However, when the open sights are 
sadly out of adjustment it is well to 
knock them off before starting the job. 
Set the front sight so the bead is over 
the center of the barrel and attach the 
rear peep sight. Run a white thread 
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