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Offline kb

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Zouave shooting High.
« on: November 20, 2007, 07:26:22 AM »
Well I finally got out to shoot my Zouave, and boy does it shoot high.  12 inches at 25 yards.  Not even on paper at 50.  I was shooting 75g of 2F, trying to flatten out the trajectory, but it didnt workout.  It is a nice gun to shoot, but I could use some suggestions on lowering the POI. 

The front sight was filed down to a nub, so Im thinking that Ill have to build it up.  JB Weld???  Any Ideas?  The rear sight is pretty short to drill out for a peep, so I was also thinking of cutting a deeper notch into it.  Id hate to ruin it though.

Any Ideas?

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Re: Zouave shooting High.
« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2007, 10:50:53 AM »
I had the same problem with my Zouave.  I filed off the front sight. I got a piece of silver, from a ring, and soldered it on. I made sure it was too high. Then I fired a few test shots, filed it down until it was right. Also that silver gave a nice contrast, between the black rear sight, and the dark deer.
You could build it up with JB Weld.
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Re: Zouave shooting High.
« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2007, 12:37:33 PM »
I filed my front sight flat.  Got a 4-40 brass nut and a couple of one inch 4-40 machine screws.  Used my drill and a file to make the nut round (kind of cone shaped actually) and soldered it to the flat front sight.  Now I can change the height of the sight by screwing in different lengths of 4-40 machine screw shafts.
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