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Old October 11, 2005, 10:23 PM   #1
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870 rifle sights

What distances are each of the 6-7 notches set for on the Remington 870 rifle sights?
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Old October 12, 2005, 01:12 AM   #2
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I'll let you know when I get my rifle sighted "rifled slug" smooth bore barrel.
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Old October 12, 2005, 10:28 AM   #3
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Would that shotguns were that predictable. The only way to know is to shoot your gun with your chosen load off the bench, and adjust the rear sight to find out. That will answer the question for that one gun, it would be necessary to repeat it for every other barrel out there. Shotguns are more like magic than science, it is not possible to make many sweeping generalizations about what a given specimen will do. It is necessary to shoot it on paper to find out, as every barrel is pretty much a law unto itself.

That's not a question I want answered badly enough to perform the experiment, by the way. I usually zero dead on at 75 yards with slugs and let it go at that. Benching a shotgun shooting slugs is not my idea of a good time, it is absolutely necessary to do so in order to get the gun sighted in but once it's done then occasional practice (and verifying zero with every change in brand/load/lot number used) is enough for me.

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Old October 12, 2005, 03:06 PM   #4
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Mega wisdom in Lee's post.
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Old October 12, 2005, 04:52 PM   #5
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What Lee said. I use an 870 smoothbore with fiber optic sights. It's zeroed at 25 yards, so probably a two or three inch drop at 50 yards, but given the thick woods in this part of New England, 50 yards is wishful thinking.
Hunting white tails and black bear is a close up business here.
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Old October 12, 2005, 07:38 PM   #6
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To answer the original question: I don't thing the sight markings correspond to anything, they're just witness marks to serve as indicators of sight movement.

In other words, each mark doesn't equal so many minutes of movement.
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Old October 13, 2005, 07:18 AM   #7
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I always believed they were rising in 25 metre increments starting at 50m.
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Old October 13, 2005, 01:17 PM   #8
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The Remington Rifle sights were designed back in the 1950's, and haven't significantly changed since.

I can assure you that in 1950's America NO commercial firearm had sight markings laid out in meters.

We certainly didn't do that "furin" stuff back then.
Yards only.
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