Windage on RIC Carbine

[Kiplan2]

How do you adjust windage on an RIC Carbine? Front nor rear sight appear to adjustable or driftable. Shooting 6 inches left at 50 yards.

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[Frederick303]

get mk IV ammo

check to see if the stock is warped. that is a likely cause

[RobD]

Mk IV is dum-dum, I guess you mean Mk II or VI.
Ckeck to see if it has been wrongly fitted with an early MLE Mk I rear sight in which the notch is noticeably offset to the left.

[mike1967]

Mk IV is dum-dum.

Mk IV is MkIV!, Dum Dum is MkII 'Special" a totally different kettle of fish. Sorry for being a pain

[Kiplan2]

Can not see any error in the stock, but I agree that is likely the source of the problem. Still is there anyway to adjust for windage?

[englishman_ca]

Early MLE sights have notch dead center. There were some retrofit rifle rear leafs to correct sighting with an offset to left issued in 1900. A notch to the left makes point of impact move to right.

Check...Carbine sights are graduated to 2000 yards. Rifle to 1800.

A rifle left offset sight would bring your point of impact back towards target. Might be worth a try to find one. Not correct for a carbine but, hey, if it works....

[Sentryduty]

There were some retrofit rifle rear leafs to correct sighting with an offset to left issued in 1900.

So am I understanding correctly that an original equipped RIC Carbine built prior to 1900 would shoot left of point of aim directly from the factory?

[englishman_ca]

No, my post is ambiguous. The rifles shot to the left as a mass produced sighting error prior to 1900. The left offset sight leaf was to correct the rifle as a field expedient to move POI to the right.

I am suggesting that the OP use an offset rifle leaf to correct his carbine. Or at least switch out the leaf cap and slider.

FYI, I have similar RIC carbines and they shoot pretty much to point of aim. Each of my carbines shoot a little differently, so I correct by shifting my aim.

[Surpmil]

Early MLE sights have notch dead center. There were some retrofit rifle rear leafs to correct sighting with an offset to left issued in 1900. A notch to the left makes point of impact move to right.

Check...Carbine sights are graduated to 2000 yards. Rifle to 1800.

A rifle left offset sight would bring your point of impact back towards target. Might be worth a try to find one. Not correct for a carbine but, hey, if it works....

There was an approved pattern of leaf that had an windage adjustable slider in which a pin was inserted to take tension off the spring for adjustment. Rigby or Westley Richards, or both, also made a slider with a tiny knob and screw to move the slider left and right. I think I've still got the odd one here.

[englishman_ca]

No adjustment.

IMA has blank leaf caps, un-drilled, un-notched.