ORIGINAL: mauser06
well yesterday i found out why i missed last sat with the flinter...i hunted a spot where i cant use a rifle for 2 drives....and i noticed the rear sight was kinda canted to the side....i touched it and it moved.....my dang screw came loose....even though i had loctite on them.....should have checked it before i sighted in the rifle the final time...my sights have lines and everything so i could remember where they were after i check.....im going to for now on.....never thought that it would work its way loose......but it did!.....lesson learned.......
Here's a tip you might be interested in...I had to do it for my TC Hawkens because the rear sight location falls right at the balance point for me when I'm carrying a TC Hawken which has the longer round ball barrel on it.
Although rare and difficult to do, because of the spring tension / detent design of TC's rear sight, it is possible to accidently push the top scissors frame down while carrying it and the elevator screw can move up or down from contact with a glove, etc, while carrying / handling the rifle through the woods...it's happened to me twice by carrying the rifle there, but that's where it balances.
Ever since then, when I sight one in for a particular load, I clean off any oil from the top of the elevator screw and surrounding sight metal with alcohol, and apply two adjacant dabs of white model / hobby paint...one to the edge of the screw and one right beside it on the edge of the surrounding frame.
Then just a quick glance will immediately show any accidental out of alignment of those two dabs of white paint, letting me know the elevator adjusting screw has moved.
Don't know if that would be anything you could incorporate but thought I'd mention it.