I did however, manage to get a hit on my tiny 8" round plate with the 6.0gr charge of Red Dot & the 240gr cast. It is actually 7 1/2" in height when you take into account the angle it is hung at. I could not see it at that distance, nor could my friend who has excellent uncorrected distance vision and I have 20/15 corrected distance vision. All we could see was a tiny dot of black which was the 3" round black circle I painted on the plate. I worked on trying to figure where the POI was trying to see impacts in the berm while my friend spotted. It appeared to be about 6 to 9" low at that distance. I took a guess how much higher I needed to move the tab in the rear buckhorn sight. I took a 6 o'clock hold on that tiny black spot while the wind was a bit calmer and more to my back. I was really ecstatic when I heard the ding on the plate. It was anchored down pretty well, plus being tiny so I could not see it swing. I looked thru my binoculars and saw that the impact was at 1 o'clock just outside the 3" circle. I quit while I was ahead and made no further attempts at the little plate
I'll continue to work on my long range shooting with my Henry and its open sights as it is extremely fun. I have been doing quite a bit of off hand shooting at 40 yards with good results, but I need to do some at 100. I know I'll have some difficulty with that.
The hits on the larger 12" X 20" plate are from my Henry as well as from my friends 1903 Springfield. He routinely makes hits on clay pidgeons at 210 yards with it with its peep sights. The hits from my Henry are probably the lighter colored ones, mostly near the bottom of the plate.
