Where does the ball hit when the top of the front sight is level with the top
flat of the rear sight . When you are sighting in are you bench resting the
rifle or shooting off hand , if you are bench resting then I know this may sound
strange but are you moving the Rifle to attain your sight picture or are you
moving your body ,if you raise the rear sight then you will shoot high .
The simplest way of working it out is to draw a horizontal line on a piece of
paper make sure it is shorter than your ruler, this  represents your barrel, now
take your ruler this represents your line of sight , place it just above the
line that you have drawn  ;if you raise the end of the ruler at the breach
end and draw a line longer than the barrel then you will see that the point at
which you are looking is lower than the point at which the barrel is shooting
meaning that you are shooting high and it has the opposite effect if you raise
the muzzle end of the
ruler . Hope this helps.
Cheers
Dave
 --- On Tue, 6/24/08, mcneesemc <mcneesemc@...> wrote:

From: mcneesemc <mcneesemc@...>
Subject: [Muzzleloaders] Bazaar sigh picture
To: Muzzleloaders@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, June 24, 2008, 5:26 PM






I have been working on this zeroing problem for a long long time
without success. I have learned to hit near center at 100 yards but
only by using a highly bazaar sighting technic. I would like to use a
normal one but cannot figure out what to raise or whittle down. Here
is the bazaar technic.

Sighting for 100 yards: The normal sight picture shoots low; and the
blade has already been whittled kinda low. To make the rifle hit
center (or at least center level) I align the flat of the rear sight
with the flat of the barrel at the muzzle. However, since this shoots
high, holding the picture of "flat to flat" I lower muzzle, raising the
bulls eye up to about half the height of the blade in the sight
picture. I end up with a sight picture of "rear sight flat aligned
with end of the barrel flat," bulls eye floating above the flats
centered about halfway up the blade.

Currently I think I should raise the height of the rear sight flat.
Any thoughts.


















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