My brother let me shoot his Eddystone with the ladder sight that had a smaller peep hole drilled in it (JB weld).

I usually cannot shoot iron sights (even peeps on the A3) worth a hoot due the older dyes.

I got a decent group at 50 and took it out to 100. Not a good target (the Leopold old 4 square) but got a decent group with the XTP (high but a decent group).

I then shifted to a large 3 inch orange ball (still too small at that distance) but got 4 shots into it at that distance before the sun played havoc with it and my eyes again. A few outside the ring so not bad as all. A decent size black ball would have worked well I think

Oddly the hand loads had quite a bit lower than the XTP and spot on using 52 gr of 4831 with the 168 gr match (same load as the 1 1/4 group with the scoped Eddystones).

Amazed at how good a picture I had and you can adjust the height with hand loads if you are running high with the normal velocity loads (these are down around 2400 fps I think)