I haven't shot the Zouave since last October, so Friday evening was devoted to pushing balls out of its .58 caliber bore with a moderate load of GOEX.
You may recall that this gun carries my home made "hardware store" forward mounted peep sight. It's an unconventional location for a peep sight, but it works pretty well for me.
(For the new guys.) The basic part of the sight is a modified 1/2" fine thread nut mounted on a 4mm stud that fits the original rear sight screw hole. I made three apertures for it out of fine thread bolts with 1/8", 3/16" and 1/4" holes.
So I decided to shoot one target with each of the apertures and one with no aperture - just the 1/2" base. The load was 90 grains of GOEX FFg with the targets at 50 yards.
Here's the results with the 1/8" aperture in place.
Here's the target with the 3/16" aperture in place.
And the 1/4" aperture.
And a final target shot with the half-inch sight base and no aperture.
This is what the sight looks like with no aperture.
All in all, the two smaller apertures work well - even with the sight that far forward. I'm thinking about making a smaller version for the
Virtuous Cousin Renegade using a 3/8" nut rather than the bulky 1/2" one used on the Zouave.