Bob Thompson
New member
I have just acquired a new Sharps long range target rifle in .45-70 which I really love but am having trouble with the rear apature sight. My eyes are fairly normal with a slight lean toward far sightedness. My age has me needing a slight correction for seeing small objects at close range ie. reading a micrometer.However I don't need glasses for shooting. My problem is when looking through the apature rear sight I see what looks like spider webbing. I have examined the apature under a magnifying glass and it is perfectly clear. Have any of you bullseye shooters or anyone shooting with apature sights ever come across this problem or do you think it is a personal problem with my eyes. Also I now understand the inherant accuracy using black powder, in my case Pyrodex, as this rifle has shot a 3/4 inch group at 100 yds. even with this sighting problem. Shooting my M-1 Garand with a larger apature I don't see these line like things. I think I need to keep the small apature approximately .040 for centering the front sight insuring long range accuracy. Does anyone have any ideas whats up. Thanks much, Bob.