Re: Need Some Hepl With Marksmanship
I'll be 63 in a few weeks, and my eyes are significantly farsighted. I was shooting with a peepsighted Mossberg 144 .22LR for the first time in several years just yesterday, in a significant overcast.
I have never come across the specific anomoly you describe, but had quite a bit of trouble yesterday with floaters. Nevertheless, once I settled own after 2 or 3 shots, the rounds started impacting with the kind of accuracy I usually get with a scope sight. Needless to say, this was a very welcome surpise.
I think that for an accomplished shooter, experimenting with unorthodox sight pictures can be both successful, and perhaps an actual improvement. I would say, go ahead and experiment. It's something I intend to do myself, now that I've got a suitible training impliment up and running again.
I would also say, that for best results, it is key to keep your cheekweld at a very consistent distance from the peep. Anything else, all's fair that works fair.
I've found that with my greater height and the .22's total lack of recoil, I can place my nose right up against the sight mount. How's that for a consistent eye relief distance?
Unfortunately it also makes the peep look about as big as a swimming pool, too. The bull and the post just seem to swim around in the middle of the great wilderness. That's why I'm thinking about doing something to alter the sight picture in some way that might render better aiming precision, like edging the bull up against the top edge of the visible aperture and bringing the post up to meet it.
...And I might just as well be whistling Dixie, but I figure it's worth a try. The thing is, I figure I can experiment with sight pictures until I find what delivers the smallest, roundest groups, and then I just need to adjust the sights to put the impacts onto the desired POI.
BTW, my Eldest Brother used to shoot US Army Intramural Company Matches with the Garand, and he showed me a trick for reducing aperture diameter on a fixed aperture. He got TDY'ed to Special Services, the way basketball players and baseball players sometimes get assigned for the Olympics, etc.
Anyhoo, you place a drop of black lacquer into the aperture, then puncture it with a sewing needle. The lacquer dries leaving a smaller aperture. This can be repeated several times until the aperture shrinks quite a bit.
Another trick from back before fiberglass was widely used for bedding, was to mix up wood glue, sawdust, and fine paper shreds, and use it as a bedding agent.
BTW, welcome aboard The 'Hide, Newguy!
Greg
