I wanted to share a project that I had been working on with the help of Idahoron. I figure it might help others trying to put peep sights on their muzzleloaders with round top receivers. My muzzleloader actually has the same exact receiver hole spacing as the CVA muzzleloaders, so this will work for CVAs just as good as it worked for mine.
I have a Traditions Tracker that I've had for a long time. It has always shot extremely well, but I felt limited by the old iron sights out past 80 yards or so and wanted to try to increase my accuracy with open sights for an Idaho legal muzzy. I wanted to try the Williams FP sight, but they don't make a Williams FP sight for my muzzleloader, so I wasn't sure I could make it work.
Idahoron suggested taking a Williams FP sight with a flat bottom and mounting it to a flat topped scope mount made for my muzzleloader. I tried this and it worked perfectly! All I had to do was drill the Williams FP Sight holes slightly larger to accommodate the slightly larger receiver mounting screws on my muzzleloader, then counterbore for the larger screws, and that was it. I did have to get slightly longer mounting screws, but they were easy to find.
Williams was out of stock for a long time of all there flat bottom sights so I wasn't able to get this all done until the last month, so I haven't even tried to get it dialed in shooting further, but it has decreased my groups to about 2 inches at 100 yards. Shoots about the same as when it has a scope on it! I'm shooting the 420 gr No Excuses on 90 gr Pyrodex Select right now with a veg fiber wad and liking that combo a lot. Anyway, here are some pictures.
Got a muzzleloader hunt that is open right now that I'm gonna being spending a week on so hopefully I'll have some pictures of it leaning a cross a buck up here in another week or two. Good luck out there guys!
I have a Traditions Tracker that I've had for a long time. It has always shot extremely well, but I felt limited by the old iron sights out past 80 yards or so and wanted to try to increase my accuracy with open sights for an Idaho legal muzzy. I wanted to try the Williams FP sight, but they don't make a Williams FP sight for my muzzleloader, so I wasn't sure I could make it work.
Idahoron suggested taking a Williams FP sight with a flat bottom and mounting it to a flat topped scope mount made for my muzzleloader. I tried this and it worked perfectly! All I had to do was drill the Williams FP Sight holes slightly larger to accommodate the slightly larger receiver mounting screws on my muzzleloader, then counterbore for the larger screws, and that was it. I did have to get slightly longer mounting screws, but they were easy to find.
Williams was out of stock for a long time of all there flat bottom sights so I wasn't able to get this all done until the last month, so I haven't even tried to get it dialed in shooting further, but it has decreased my groups to about 2 inches at 100 yards. Shoots about the same as when it has a scope on it! I'm shooting the 420 gr No Excuses on 90 gr Pyrodex Select right now with a veg fiber wad and liking that combo a lot. Anyway, here are some pictures.
Got a muzzleloader hunt that is open right now that I'm gonna being spending a week on so hopefully I'll have some pictures of it leaning a cross a buck up here in another week or two. Good luck out there guys!
