I'm curious about the idea of making up a mount for my old rolling block .38-55 as a sighting aid during my upcoming load development time.
The rifle has a decent enough Pedersoli Soule style peep setup but I'd like to further reduce the effect of errors of my "old guy eyes" so that I know the results are more about the loads than me. So I'm looking at the idea of making up a mount that will clamp around the barrel just by the receiver and attached to a threaded insert at the rear sight dovetail.
This "cheat" would only be used for load testing.
Anyone done this or have thoughts on such a mount and what it'll do to the accuracy of the barrel?
Pictures of such setups?