Hi All,
Just bought my first 45-70, a slightly used Chiappa 1874 Creedmore. Its not a Shiloh or Pedersoli but I like the gun (just the sight is a pain at this moment).
It was shipped to me with the sight leaf spring taken out. So while installing the leaf spring back on, I noticed two things, The first one is that the sight can only fold forward which will make cleaning the between shots (group of shots) impossible from the breech end. The 2nd thing is after playing with the sight, the vertical position does that hold and I have to re-adjust the leaf spring again.
Did I install this simple thing wrong? I have read some posts that some sights are only front folding which is a bad design for a "competition" gun. Don't they clean their bores after a few shots?
Thanks looking forward to some advice from you veteran shooters.