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Bell target sights

Post by Tank » Wed Feb 20, 2013 8:35 pm

Have been doing a bit (much) research on sights. I called and spoke to Ryan at Intershoot who was extremely helpful and he said that although he has a great deal of experience he has little knowlege of bell target shooting.
He suggested that rather than buy an expensive adjustable front iris, buy one of the fixed size ones - and the pink one they sell is extremely popular - but which one? They are not expensive if I get it wrong, a fiver, but no point in wasting money, what do you guys use? What size do you think would suit? I have heard that a 3.2 to 3.8 is a good size?
Anyone have any thoughts?

I have already decided on the Centra indoor rear iris as suggested by Ryan but it is the front sight that has me.
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Post by pmh » Wed Feb 20, 2013 9:02 pm

Having tried a few rifles with different diameter reticules, I do prefer the ones which are just slightly bigger than the Bell Target hole.

The one I J had was the best of the bunch so far, but I found this one just slightly too small.

Not much help I know, but the next time he brings it in, measure the reticule and pick the next wider one.

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Post by zunmik » Wed Feb 20, 2013 9:10 pm

pmh:2102 wrote:Having tried a few rifles with different diameter reticules, I do prefer the ones which are just slightly bigger than the Bell Target hole.

The one I J had was the best of the bunch so far, but I found this one just slightly too small.

Not much help I know, but the next time he brings it in, measure the reticule and pick the next wider one.

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The one in my Walther is just slightly bigger than the bell target ring i will measure it on friday & post it on here, M.
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Post by Ian » Wed Feb 20, 2013 9:13 pm

All being well I will be able to do a bit of shooting with mine at the weekend - Ill have a look at the front sight. Im not sure what make mine are - they were fitted to the XB78 when I bought it


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Post by pmh » Wed Feb 20, 2013 9:18 pm

I do like the traditional steel ones, but modern offerings seem to be an etched perspex disk, or simply drilled.

>Intershoot< is a good place to look, and offers various types.

They often come up on ebay too.

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Post by Tank » Wed Feb 20, 2013 9:27 pm

This is the one I was talking about, Pink is the new black and a fiver is not the end of the world: http://www.intershoot.co.uk/acatalog/An ... t-345.html
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Post by zunmik » Fri Feb 22, 2013 3:11 pm

Checked mine today, the Walther has a plastic 3.4 mm one, and the "izzie" has a 3.8mm metal one, for me the difference in size does not make a significant change to how i shoot i quickly adjust to either one after a couple of sighters, M.
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Post by pmh » Fri Feb 22, 2013 6:38 pm

3.8mm sounds the perfect starter size.

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Re: Bell target sights

Post by ikarma70 » Sat May 18, 2013 8:11 am

When i got my anschutz, it had a 2.8 iris and i get on very well with that size.
I have tried 2.6 & 2.4 but found them too hard to stay on target so i refitted the 2.8 and started to get my results back up very quickly.

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