I bought a new 2 band Ped. Enfield musket from Cabelas. The gun is very well made and worth every penny of it's $750+ price tag. However, the sights are next to useless for me. The 100 yard setting coupled with the low front sight make it impossible for me to get my cheek down low enough on the stock to even see the wretched tiny rear blade. 20 shots and I could not hit the paper at 50 or 100 yards. Now, when I lifted the ladder to the 400 yard position and shot at the gong at 400 yards, I hit the sucker every time; boom, 1 mississippi, 2 mississippi, ...dong!
The gun can shoot, but I can't shoot it with those sights. I plan to replace the fron sight (sweated on, no windage) with one that will allow me to change blade heights and see if I can't get something working.
For the record, I don't blame Pedersoli; this is a dang close replica and the sights are what it originally came with in 1860. I have a Zoli Zuave with the same issue only not so bad. The Zoli sights are visible but they shoot way to the left at 100 yards. Again, they aren't windage adjustable either. So, I put some 1893 Krag sights on it and athose were great until my eyes went south. Now the knotch is way too small to really use. The little peep works well though...at 200 yards but not 100.