Graybeard Outdoors (GBO Reloaded)
H&R Talk => H&R Centerfire Rifles => Topic started by: juano2001 on August 13, 2006, 06:20:05 PM
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Hi Everyone
I getting ready to get my hands on an H&R 38/55. I wouldl ike to change the sights to a mid range vernier type of sight purely for aesthetics. Can anyone suggest a sight that is readily adaptable for this application. My apologies if this has been covered in a previous topic...I could not find anything with the search function.
Cheers
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Well I found what I wanted today X 2. I just bought a Buffalo and a Target....for about 1/2 price!!! Both guns only test fired!!
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Welcome aboard! Congrats on the new H&Rs, you're gonna love em! There aren't any vernier sights made for the BC/Target, best you can do is mount one of your choice directly on the wrist or on a false tang, or get the Smith ladder sight to mount on the barrel. You might browse some of the sites I've listed below for sights that may suit your fancy, the Dixie sight is probably the least expensive of the vernier sights I've seen, the Soule sights are the best, but not inexpensive.
Tim
http://www.buffaloarms.com/browse.cfm/4,4191.htm
http://www.brownells.com/aspx/NS/store/ProductDetail.aspx?p=18735&title=WESSON+%26+HARRINGTON+LONG+RANGE+SIGHT
http://www.buffaloarms.com/browse.cfm/4,1942.html
http://www.dixiegunworks.com/product_info.php?products_id=7543&osCsid=a44aeb6bf28be3e995a8cefb4e67f3fd
http://www.handirifle.com/articles/mybuffalo.htm
http://www.thunder-ridge-muzzleloading.com/p_sights.htm not working ???
http://www.gboreloaded.com/forums/index.php/topic,111161.msg1098338948.html#msg1098338948
http://www.gboreloaded.com/forums/index.php/topic,122434.msg1098419810.html#msg1098419810
http://www.gboreloaded.com/forums/index.php/topic,119506.msg1098396326.html#msg1098396326
http://www.gboreloaded.com/forums/index.php/topic,92122.msg562171.html#msg562171
http://www.gboreloaded.com/forums/index.php/topic,101242.msg1098269926.html#msg1098269926
http://www.gboreloaded.com/forums/index.php/topic,206874.msg1099087984.html#msg1099087984
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;D Thanks so much very encouraging to see some groups like that!!!
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Creedmoor Vernier Tang Sight,
for Mid Range competition,
with 3" elevation and windage,
plus true Vertical alignment
RS-CREED-3-WE Creedmoor Vernier Tang Sight, for Mid Range competition, with 3" elevation and windage, plus true Vertical alignment . . . $55.00
This mid-range 3" Creedmoor Vernier tang sight includes two pivoting adjustment screws in the base, to allow perfectly true Vertical alignment, without file fitting the base to your tang.
This sight does have windage adjustment, built in. You may loosen the eye disk, and slide the eye-disk carriage vane from side-to-side, for windage. Be sure to scribe a zero mark, since the vane is unmarked.
Two 4-7mm mounting screws are included. Base mounting holes are 1.510" on center. Made in Italy, this sight is often fitted to Pedersoli Rolling Block Rifles, or Sharps rifles by Pedretti, EMF, IAB, Siles, or Powder River. It will not fit the 1874 Sharps by Shiloh, C. Sharps, or Pedersoli. Those use the same sight spacing and odd screws as the original antique Sharps rifles.
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I forgot about TOTW, this is the one you just posted about. ;D
Tim
http://www.trackofthewolf.com/categories/partDetail.aspx?catId=14&subId=167&styleId=770&partNum=RS-CREED-3-WE
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Yes thanks I just ordered it. Now I need dies, bullets, load information...can't wait. I started with cast .377 with gas checks for the 38/55, have not bought anything for the 45/70.
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Wheres a good place for lee dies? I see they make both the sets i need. Cabelas don't carry the 38/55 from what I can see.
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You would do well to start with bigger cast bullets, they are notorious for being overbore, most shoot .380"-.381" well if you can chamber them, they also have small chamber necks which compounds the issue.
Tim
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You would do well to start with bigger cast bullets, they are notorious for being overbore, most shoot .380"-.381" well if you can chamber them, they also have small chamber necks which compounds the issue.
Tim
Thanks for the heads up, maybe I'll change to the .378 or .379, any posts with load info on here?
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Lots of posts, but the search function is disabled, using the members list then searching by name is the only way to find posts IF the poster's name is known. Here's JPH45's and Cheatermk3's posts, scroll thru em until you find applicable posts, that's the best I can do for ya, they are well versed in the idiosyncrasies of loading for the 38-55.
Tim
http://www.graybeardoutdoors.com/smf/index.php?action=profile;u=6800;sa=showPosts
http://www.graybeardoutdoors.com/smf/index.php?action=profile;u=10776;sa=showPosts
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Once I saw an Handi Rifle,fitted with a set of muzzleloader double triggers,but I do not know how that fella went about fitting them to the gun.
It was stocked in curly maple,a nice piece I thought!
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juano2001,
I have had better luck with cast bullets sized to .381. My Handi Target rifle is a 2007 version so the chamber is the correct size. Depending on what you have, you might need to get the chamber reamed out to the correct size.
John