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Old 06-10-2015, 05:44 PM
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Blackpowdersmoke
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Originally Posted by nchawkeye
I've killed deer cleanly with my .54 flintlock out to 125 yards and a patched ball...

Here is where I have an advantage, she has a 38 inch barrel..

Once I had cataract surgery, I did open up the rear sight which helped see the front sight, I had a very fine sight picture before...

Also, sight in about 2 inches high at 50 and then practice further...With mine I'm sighted in at 75, about 3 inches low at 100 and about 6 inches low at 125...
That's pretty much how I do it... but then again, I hunt in the woods where 75 yds. is about the max shot. If I hunted plot fields, etc., I would want to know where I'm hitting by experience, not by guess and by gosh.

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