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White Falcon:
Very nice.
Eric Krewson:
I ordered a taller rear sight but it appears the shipping will be delayed.
Today I am going to grind off my existing sight to below the notch and solder on a piece to to raise it up where it needs to be to raise my groups. I have made sights before from angle iron so I can make the add on piece look like it is part of the sight.
I made this one for my fowler with a hacksaw and a file but it took me two days, I don't want to invest that amount of time in making another sight when I have one on the way.
Here is how it started and how it finished up;
gifford:
Eric - congrats on another fine build along, your Issac Haines rifle is beautifully crafted, well done.
I like your ideas on the wasp waisted bolt and the new rear sight. for your fowler. Innovative and doesn't look the least bit out of place.
Hope that new rear sight puts you in the black.
Eric Krewson:
I failed at adding a piece to my sight, it kept falling off. I finally got it to stick well and put it in my cross slide vise on my drill press and used a carbide cutter to cut the concave front out. I guess I went too fast and popped the add on piece off. I abandoned the project.
With muzzle loader season opening Monday I need a rear sight right now. A great friend gave me his tackleboxes full of black powder parts and accessories before he died. I had looked through the parts for a Lancaster sight but didn't find one, one more look yesterday turned up a simi-buckhorn sight that was tall enough to work. I had thought about using it on my fowler before I made a sight and had filed the sight to fit my fowler dovetail. I tested it in my Haines rifle dovetail and the dang thing was just slightly oversized and would go half way into the dovetail.
Better the wrong style sight than no sight so I fit tit to the dovetail and filed a notch in it.
I am browning it today so it won't look so out of place on my gun, I should be able to shoot the gun and adjust the sight height it by this weekend.
JW_Halverson:
Ugg, the struggles of last-minute details! Hope this latest effort is the fix.
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