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.45 colt carbine
« on: June 04, 2007, 04:50:28 PM »
hey, y'all ! finally triiggerd a few rounds the other day and was pleased with some promising groups from my bc carbine. at 30 paces it gave me 2' to 2 1/4' groups with the open sights and my aging eyes. sure good enuff for casual plinking and, with some load tweaking, minute of white-tail out to 75 yards or so. past that she'll have to wear glass. with the last three rounds i was 3 for 3 on a 1lb coffee can. BTW, i notice on the rear sight a slot and screw that look like they might accept a sight blade of some sort. any body have any info on that or is it just part of the animal? thanks, dinger
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Re: .45 colt carbine
« Reply #1 on: June 04, 2007, 05:03:29 PM »
The screw is to loosen and make fine elevation adjustments of the insert in the rear sight. Once you get it sighted in, be sure to stake the dovetail or the rear sight will get knocked out of alignment, it's just sitting in the slot in the barrel. I pushed mine out with my finger as I can't use em.

I shot a nice 1¾" cloverleaf at 100yds with mine using a Weaver V3 scope on it and 250gr Speer GDHPs over a max load of lil'gun at a little over 1900fps, it's a nice shooting little gun, I was pleasantly surprised at the accuracy.

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Re: .45 colt carbine
« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2007, 05:28:37 PM »
thanks for the reply, quick. seems my carbine was shipped minus the rear sight insert!!! my groups were fired using the big u shaped notch where the insert should be! i best go rattle the box she came in and see if that insert is hanging around in it. dang, first,my fore-end is crooked and now this. spooky! dinger.
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Re: .45 colt carbine
« Reply #3 on: June 04, 2007, 06:16:50 PM »
It's got a white diamond on it, if you don't find it, give H&R a call and ask them to send ya one. Did ya get the forend replaced?

Tim
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Re: .45 colt carbine
« Reply #4 on: June 12, 2007, 05:02:20 PM »
just an update here. took your advice,quick, and sent a photo of the fore-end problem to h&r. also included a mention of the missing rear sight insert. it's two days gone via snail mail so i will  bring you up speed when things start to happen. thanks, dinger.
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Re: .45 colt carbine
« Reply #5 on: June 12, 2007, 05:08:29 PM »
No digital camera yet? ??? I haven't bought any film for at least 10yrs!!! ;)

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Re: .45 colt carbine
« Reply #6 on: June 13, 2007, 01:35:11 PM »
oh, jeez, quick !!! my bad on this one. it surley was from my olympus digital. as soon as i delve into posting pics i'll put up a shot or two to show you all what the problem looked like. "May your Owl fly level with the Moon". dinger
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Re: .45 colt carbine
« Reply #7 on: June 13, 2007, 02:23:29 PM »
 ;D I just emailed them a pic of the stock they damaged, sent me a new one as soon as they made another one!! ;)

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Re: .45 colt carbine
« Reply #8 on: June 19, 2007, 02:55:26 PM »
OUCH!
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Re: .45 colt carbine
« Reply #9 on: June 20, 2007, 04:50:39 PM »
hey,quick, sorry about the short post yesterday. there was some guy outside the cave that wanted to sell me something called "Fire"!
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Re: .45 colt carbine
« Reply #10 on: June 20, 2007, 04:57:17 PM »
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