Drift the Mosin's Sight?

[Josh Smith]

Hi Folks,

I was trying out my YouTube contest's target today after making some adjustments to the Mosin's shims, namely replacing some of the rubberized cork with actual shim stock I had laying around and put about 5lbs of upward pressure on the barrel while countering that with the upper handguard -- pretty much I was aiming to duplicate the idea of the Gew88's sleeved barrel, since it shoots so well with it.

This is what I got:

I'm sure the rifle will do better than this; the limitations were my own.

Do you suppose I should drift the front sight a bit to the right, or wait until I fire a few more strings so make sure the error wasn't me?

Thanks,

Josh

[CDFingers]

Since this was only at 50 yards, it's probably best to shoot ten or so at 100 or even 200 yards to nail down the right-left orientation.

CDFingers