Hi All
I have reduced my scope use to only one rifle at the moment because I am really liking using open sights. In the process of changing most of them over, I decided to figure out why I have such grief shooting my nitro-venom which can only use a scope. (I'm working on that too.)
The gun itself is really accurate, but it almost always feels awkward when I hold it to shoot. My Phantom is very comfortable, so I swapped the stocks.
Wow.
The nitro venom action and scope love the Phantom stock and it feels very comfortable with less recoil than with the stock stock. And it's very accurate.
However, my always accurate Phantom with open sights became awkward with the NV stock. To get my eye low enough I had to either get my face right up near the action, or put the part of the stock which was behind the cheek rest right under my cheek-bone, and the recoil hurt.
So I did what I should have done to begin with; I measured all my rifle stocks to get the cheek rest height below the centre of the action. I found that all but the NV stock were about 1/2" to 3/4" below the centre line. The NV stock started at the front only 3/8" below, and rose to be right on the action's centre line at the rear.
It's a wood stock (I really like wood) so I planed off the top of the cheek rest so that now it is completely flat front to back and about 1/2" below the centre line. I can look through the sights now very comfortably. It's sanded and re-stained (I got rid of the original finish a long time ago), and when the stain dries I'm hoping for great things.
I know pretty much nothing about rifle design, but does this make sense? I suppose for scoped use I could just get taller scope rings, but this is what I did.
Peter
PS: Looking for a rear peep sight I found this
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/r.html?C=N8Y5N ... _emaildp_1 I had it sent to one of their pick-up locations so the shipping/handling was only around $4.00 and I got it today. It works beautifully but you need a low profile Picatinny converter.