TROUBLE WITH MY SITE PICTURE ON FULL BUCKHORN MOUNTED ON QUIGLEY
Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2019 8:00 am
Good Day all
I finally received my 45-110 Quigley and absolutely love, well worth the wait! I picked up from our local gun shop here in Colorado Springs the “SHOOTIN DEN” after my muzzle loading deer season which I did happen to harvest a nice little young 5X4 buck with my .50 Cal in-line. Any way on to what I need help with. My eyes ain’t quite what they use to be and am having trouble seeing a good site picture with the full buckhorn site I am utilizing that I ordered on the rifle. I know this was not standard on the Quigley but mine is suited for me and not a standard Quigley before folks tell me the semi buckhorn was what it came with. I also purchased Montana vintage arms front site inserts to try different apertures up front. Now on to the meat and gravy did find a few apertures I like and can see fairly well but when I line up with bottom V in buckhorn I am shootin any where from 4 to 6 inches low at 100 yards this should be my dead on position on the full buckhorn. This is when I line up with a horizontal line just at top of V with my front bead inline with that covering my 1” bull at 100yds. If I place my bead in center of antlers or buck horn arc. I am then hitting right around the bull or bull, this position should be the 150 yard position and site picture. Please correct me or school me if I am wrong but this is how I was taught to utilize the full buckhorn and works well on my other rifles. 1 more ? For folks when I was in the Military we use to utilize a smudge pot to blacken sites to keep sun glare down to a minimal. Is there something out there that I can utilize in a similar fashion to darken my iron sites to minimize or eliminate sun glare on my sites? Do appreciate any help with these issues.
Respectfully
Greg
CM1 USN SEABEE RETIRED
I finally received my 45-110 Quigley and absolutely love, well worth the wait! I picked up from our local gun shop here in Colorado Springs the “SHOOTIN DEN” after my muzzle loading deer season which I did happen to harvest a nice little young 5X4 buck with my .50 Cal in-line. Any way on to what I need help with. My eyes ain’t quite what they use to be and am having trouble seeing a good site picture with the full buckhorn site I am utilizing that I ordered on the rifle. I know this was not standard on the Quigley but mine is suited for me and not a standard Quigley before folks tell me the semi buckhorn was what it came with. I also purchased Montana vintage arms front site inserts to try different apertures up front. Now on to the meat and gravy did find a few apertures I like and can see fairly well but when I line up with bottom V in buckhorn I am shootin any where from 4 to 6 inches low at 100 yards this should be my dead on position on the full buckhorn. This is when I line up with a horizontal line just at top of V with my front bead inline with that covering my 1” bull at 100yds. If I place my bead in center of antlers or buck horn arc. I am then hitting right around the bull or bull, this position should be the 150 yard position and site picture. Please correct me or school me if I am wrong but this is how I was taught to utilize the full buckhorn and works well on my other rifles. 1 more ? For folks when I was in the Military we use to utilize a smudge pot to blacken sites to keep sun glare down to a minimal. Is there something out there that I can utilize in a similar fashion to darken my iron sites to minimize or eliminate sun glare on my sites? Do appreciate any help with these issues.
Respectfully
Greg
CM1 USN SEABEE RETIRED
