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Raising the rear sight is out of the question?
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The rear notch in the tang is of course centered in the tang and about 1/16" deep. I chose to stay with the period correct style of sights, as I attempted to reproduce a British Style fowler. I copied am unsigned gun, that is in a book. There was not rear sight on them except for the notch I provided. Here is the tang before I filed in the groove. I debated about doing it, before shooting it, but I couldn't or wouldn't be able to stand having a groove off of center and would bend the barrel anyhow. The groove follows the slot in the screw and travels forward in the tang, to the back of the barrel, but not into the barrel. As an original I was referring to was done. I just want to make darn sure, that as it is now, the gun shoots low. So, it appears I want to bend the barrel up. [img:center]http://  [/img]
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... I just want to make darn sure, that as it is now, the gun shoots low. So, it appears I want to bend the barrel up. [img:center]http:// [/img] Definitely bend up to get a higher POI. You might try using some sort of reference to check to see that you indeed bent it, as it will have a surprising amount of spring back. A straight edge may help.
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One More time, If you bend the bbl the impact is going to move in the direction you bend the muzzle. If you want to raise the impact bend it up, if you want to lower the impact bend it down.
When woirking with sights you move a rear sight in the direction you want to move the impact, but you move the front sight opposite. "BUT" in bending a bbl we are not working so much with the sight line but changing the exit Direction from the bore. It will thus change the direction of the projectile in the direction you move the muzzle.
Simply visulize the bbl is shapped like Granny's rocker. Put the two ends level & it should be quite obvious to any one both Ends are pointing "UP". If the line of sight were thus level the projectile would be launched upward at a substantial angle dependent upon the bend. Of course nowhere near that much is needed here, just a gentle bend Upward to raise the impact.
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That was done as a matter of course after installation of Polychokes and Cutts Compensators.
The muzzle pickles raised the front sight, thus the barrel had to be bent UP to keep the rig from shooting low.
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Chuck, thanks for the input on the Mod 12 barrel bend. Speaking of Simmons, I just this afternoon got to see a Mod 1912 20ga that started as plain barrel gun. It just came back from Simmons with a new solid rib that looks like Win factory stuff, and a very nice reblue. Very nicely done.
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