1/2 mm adjustment makes a HUGE difference. 100 year ed, Crosman 362, Part 2, The Williams sight.

In Part 1, I showed how nice the 100 year anniversary edition of the Crosman 362 is, with the fine Turkish Walnut stock, and nice additions like the steel breech, the Williams sight, a really cool front sight with a fiber optic, brass trigger, safety, and bolt handle. It inspired me to do my first watercolor painting in quite some time. I also ran it through the chronograph, and tests showed it was doing very well with the standard Crosman Hollow Point pellet, and the Crosman .22 penetrating pellet, the Red Flight. I shot it at the target a few times to get an idea how many adjusments needed to be made for the sight. It was high and left, even a 12 yards, and by 25 yards, that was causing a lot of guess work.

So, in this video we go into the Williams sight, made in Michigan. It resembles the peep sights used by the US in WWII and Korea with both the M1 Garand and M1 Carbine. It also resembles some of the target rifle sights I have seen on higher priced competition air rifles. For an older person, like myself, shooting with open sites is a challenge because I have bi-focals, with uncorrected vision of near sighted. That means I have to have my glasses on to see the target, but the glasses make it difficult to focus on the front sight, due to that focal plane (2 to 3 feet out) is slightly blurred. With the Williams sight this is not a problem...not sure why; it may have something to do with looking through the small hole actually helps my vision in that two to three foot area. Regardless, with the Williams sight, I can shoot with some confidence. I wanted to get it to where I could place the fiber optic front sight on the precise target, and hit that target. It took quite a bit of practice, but I eventually learned that adjusting the actual sight even one click can change a baseball sized group three to four inches at 25 yards.

In this video I actually make the final adjustment on elevation at just one tick mark, a half millimeter adjustment. Once I knew the pellet would go exactly where the optic sight was, eliminating guesswork on estimation, it made it much better to get tighter groups.