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- Thu Mar 11, 2010 12:54 pm
- Forum: Rifles & Shotguns
- Topic: So how do you aim a Garand?
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Re: So how do you aim a Garand?
In honor of this thread, I changed my avatar to me and my Garand, in 1968, somewhere in the Med.
- Wed Mar 10, 2010 9:24 pm
- Forum: Rifles & Shotguns
- Topic: So how do you aim a Garand?
- Replies: 15
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Re: So how do you aim a Garand?
I was going to suggest the same thing, something in the peep, and it doesn’t take much.
Years ago I was coaching, well, assistant coaching my son’s high school rifle team (military school) and one of the newer shooters was having a problem. Seems he couldn’t get a good group and he claimed he couldn’t get a good sight picture. After watching his technique and position for a few shots, I asked him to let me see the rifle.
This was a Remington 513T with globe aperture front and rear sights, at 50 feet the black is a ball which you place in the center of the front aperture and the rear aperture is a blurry ring around that, three concentric circles. Shooting prone a good shooter should be able to make a cloverleaf hole in the target and an expert will make a single hole just a little out of round. A lot of years ago I qualified NRA Expert, so I expected a small group, even without slinging up, and was rewarded with what I expected, not in the x ring, but that could be sight adjustment, but a nice small group.
Just as I finished firing the head coach walked up and asked me why I was firing a rifle without a rear sight on it.
I had not even noticed that the rear aperture was not there and was using the mount as the rear sight.
Years ago I was coaching, well, assistant coaching my son’s high school rifle team (military school) and one of the newer shooters was having a problem. Seems he couldn’t get a good group and he claimed he couldn’t get a good sight picture. After watching his technique and position for a few shots, I asked him to let me see the rifle.
This was a Remington 513T with globe aperture front and rear sights, at 50 feet the black is a ball which you place in the center of the front aperture and the rear aperture is a blurry ring around that, three concentric circles. Shooting prone a good shooter should be able to make a cloverleaf hole in the target and an expert will make a single hole just a little out of round. A lot of years ago I qualified NRA Expert, so I expected a small group, even without slinging up, and was rewarded with what I expected, not in the x ring, but that could be sight adjustment, but a nice small group.
Just as I finished firing the head coach walked up and asked me why I was firing a rifle without a rear sight on it.
I had not even noticed that the rear aperture was not there and was using the mount as the rear sight.