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Rifle Sights: The Club has a number of club rifles for hire and these have one of two sighting systems - telescopes and peep sights.
Telescope:
The telescopes on these rifles offer about 10x magnification and have cross-hairs visible in the telescope. You place the cross hairs exactly in the middle of the black circle aiming mark. Your eye can be too close to the telescope or too far away. A rough guide is to place two fingers between the scope and your eye.
If your eye is to far away, a ring of shade closes in from around the sides of the sight picture. As you move your eye closer to the telescope, this shade dissappears. You should just be able to see it, evenly around the extreme edges of the sight picture.
If your eye is too close, the sight picture is bright and clear, but you can move your head around, without the sight picture changing ..... your eye is not exactly centered in the middle of the scope. Move your head back slowly until the ring of shade appears.
Peep Sights: Competition rifles have open sights, called peep sights. You look (peep) through a series of concentric circles, with the black aiming mark in the centre of the front sight circle.
Look through the rear sight, at the front sight. You will be looking through a hole in the rear sight. Move your head around until the whole outside of the front sight is centred in this hole. Your head is now in the correct position on the rifle.
The front sight has a ring inside it. Without changing the position of your head, move everything around, until the black dot of the target aiming mark is in the centre of the front sight ring.
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