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Windage on RIC Carbine
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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04-05-2016 05:57 PM
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get mk IV ammo
check to see if the stock is warped. that is a likely cause
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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.
Last edited by RobD; 04-06-2016 at 03:42 AM.
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Originally Posted by
RobD
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
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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?
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No adjustment.
IMA has blank leaf caps, un-drilled, un-notched.
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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....
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Originally Posted by
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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?
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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.
Last edited by englishman_ca; 04-07-2016 at 03:28 PM.
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Englishman,
If you move the notch to the left, she'll shoot More to the left. :-)
You'd have to move the Front sight to the left to be any help.
Kiplan,
If I were you, I'd get some thin metal and solder it on the rear face of your original sight, and cut the notch in the right place. If this notch runs into the original V, you may not be able to deepen it as much as the old one, & then it might shoot high. Just a case of trial and error.
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