Brookhaven - Friday morning

[SteveT]

Had a blast shooting with pandm today. Fun as always Joe.
Also a great chat with a couple of other folks.

The RPR was good although I really wanted to spend more time with my Yugo Mauser (8mm), iron sights at 100yards.

I could barely see the target, my eyes just could hold something that small in focus. Not sure what to do about that.

I'm holding at 6'oclock. Pic below. Windage a little off. Rear sight won't go any lower. Doesn't the mauser have a minimum 200 meter default?

School me, any tips for a newish shooter?

[SteveT]

Doh, picture seems to be rotated 90 degrees. You get the idea.

[imrich]

I was there this morning too. Nice day. Weather was excellent.

[SteveT]

Were you on the 100 yard line? Dang, if I'd known I'd have said hello.

[Happy Camper]

School me, any tips for a newish shooter?

Try using a different target, one with a bigger bull. I would suggest at least 8 inches of solid black.

Your never going to be able to see the target clearly when you have a sight picture. It's just not how our eyes work.

Focus on the front sight. The target and rear sight will be fuzzy. Zero for a six o'clock hold.

As Appleseed instructors are wont to say: "Shoot the fuzz; hit the fuzz."

[sickofny]

Being in my mid 50's Mauser style iron sights are just about useless to me. They were designed for much younger eyes! I had my Yugo at the range a few weeks ago and the best I distance could hope to shoot was 50 yards. That was when I decided to go with a no gunsmith scout style mount which replaces the rear sight and a pistol scope. Fairly easy to install but as of yet I haven't used it so no report on effectiveness. I can only assume after a few rounds at 50 for a quick sight in after a boresighting I will be off to 100. The minimum sighting distance will be based on the height of the front sight. My Yugo was on with a 6 o'clock hold at 50 yards and was damn accurate considering I really couldn't see the target clearly.