Carbine rear sight settings?
I've searched everywhere and can't seem to find:
What are the 4 elevation notches on my (type 2 milled?) rear sight? I've seen 100,200,250,300. Is this correct?
Is windage one minute per click?
Also I had to adjust the rear sight almost all the way to the left to zero it even tho the base is centered. Bent barrel?
Thanks!
Inland: Both my carbines shooting point of aim is no coincidence
The Win came with adjustable sights and the NPM was rebuilt with them and a new RIA front sight. So somebody set them up for a POA @100yds.
BSA: I think what you are seeing is what Gus Fisher used to call a combined result of manufacturing errors. He said this about M1 rifles. Things being off just a bit on all the parts. The M1 rifle has a set screw on the FRONT sight to adjust for all of these errors. Remember that these things were being pounded out at crazy production rates and not being very carefully done at that. When you look down the barrel of my Winchester it looks crooked as hell. Things cocked off to one side, and not lining up at all. And it is as it left the factory in Mar 1944. So I wouldn't get wrapped around the axle about how it looks. Does it hit the mark? That's what is important. The Carbines were built by eight companies who had never built guns. Some were making over 1000 a day, imagine how fast they had to pound these things out. The barrels were even more rushed with high scrap rates, so some off witness marks should be expected. Bent barrels were a common fault and straightened by eye using an arbor press to save the barrel. This was done on a rush basis I'm sure.