Home Forums Lever Action Central Marlin 336 Lever Actions I need a taller front sght.

I recently put a williams peep sight on my 336sc, and all my shoots are 7"- 12" high. Hopefully I can find a Fire sight the correct hieght.

Call Williams. They will know which one.

Thanks Blackhawk, I did just that. Should be here in a week.

Did the firesight correct the problem?

As soon as I get a chance to shoot with the new sight, I will let you know.

I had the exact same problem recently. If you haven't yet solved yours, here is your solution. Take your rifle out and shoot a couple of 3 shot groups and measure the vertical distance from the center of your groups to the point of aim in inches. Average these to get the mean vertical difference between your point of aim and your point of impact. Next, measure the distance between your front and rear sights in inches. Finally calculate the distance to the target in inches.

From these 3 measurements, you will use a simple but probably forgotten old principle from high school geometry to calculate how high (much higher) your front should be.

Multiply the difference between point of aim and point of impact (in inches) by the distance between the front and rear sight (also in inches). Divide the resulting number by the distance to the target (again, in inches). This will give you how much higher your front sight should be than it currently is in inches. It will likely be a very small number (like 0.05 or 0.13).

Obvioulsly you will need to know (or measure) the height of your current sight if you are going to use this information to get a sight that is the proper hight for you rifle.

*Note* If you have your receiver peep turned down as low as it will go when you shoot for these calculations, then the height of the sight it gives you will be the minimum necessary for your rifle. That is, if you were to raise your receiver peep sight at all, you would start shooting high again. So you may want to get a sight a little bit higher so you have some wiggle room.

Hope this helps.


Mosquitoswatter

here's some math help, for reference since the sight has been ordered:
http://www.baitshopboyz.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9173&PN=1

when i put the williams peep on my 336 cs, i needed roughly .400" of front sight height.

since i have heard mixed reviews of the firesight, i went w/ a .410" marbles version of the firesight. works well.