mcneesemc:

If the projectile is going below your point of aim then two possibilities come
to mind:
1 You're using too little powder (You didn't state caliber, or whether you were
using round ball, or powder charge, so I can't guess if this is the case)
2 You need to buy or make a higher rear sight. The ways you raise point of
impact are to lower the front sight or to raise the rear sight. Since you say
the front has already been filed, I'm thinking the likeliest fix is to buy a new
rear sight from Dixie or Track of the Wolf, or whoever you use for parts.

Sounds as though the rear sight needs to be increased in height about half the
height of the Front sight.

Hope this helps. Good luck, and let us know if you have more questions.

Ken



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From: mcneesemc <mcneesemc@...>

..... 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.