Thanks everyone for the info! I'm having a blast tinkering with this old rifle. Keeps me from buying something else while my Micro is at the shop.
I went out shooting again. Got my patterns down to 3". Once I actually had some consistancy with the rifle all the shots were about 5" left & at least that high. I made a witness mark on the front sight, drifted it over .020 & took a few passes with a file across the bottom of the rear sight. Slowly but surely I got the bullets in the bullseye.
A local store had a box of SST 140s so I got those. Trigger should be here tomorrow & I've got a skinner lopro coming to go in the farthest rear scope mount hole.
I prefer a rear peep & legthening the sight radius will help me. I was going to do this with a scope but now I'm curious to see how well I can shoot with irons.
Keep the discussion going guys!