How do U compensate for various distance with your ML?

[Rattus58]

again i will reply that if you get good with a .22 long rifle and kentucy windage on it, the same can be used on a flinter or percussion.

Were not the kentucky folks who invented this windage thing not shootin smokey squirrel guns...

 

[Tom A Hawk]

Forgive me a bit of technical sight adjustment however with all this talk about "Kentucky windage" I will remind that the term "windage" refers to horizontal correction due to cross wind. For distance alone we correct by raising elevation.

"Windage and elevation Mrs. Langdon.... Windage and elevation."

Oh...By the way. That's a model 92 Winchester the Duke is carrying in a scene from 1865 at the close of the Civil War. Guess he was a bit ahead of his time...

 

[smoothshooter]

Many years ago I shot metallic silhouette competition with iron sighted handgun out to 200 meters and used the front sight elevation method favored by Elmer Keith. The front sight is held higher in the rear sight notch for extended ranges and its positioning on the target remains the same. I grew very confident with this aiming method and do the same with ML rifles.

That is exactly what I do.
When this subject comes up I am always amazed at how few people know about this superior technique.
I figured it out on my own when I was about 10'or 11'years old shooting pellet guns and .22's.
Twenty years later was amused that Keith was an advocate of this method as well.
Works for all types of guns with open sights.