Took it to the range and shot four loads with two different bullets and powders from a bench at 50yds. The 170gr FP wouldn't feed and wasn't surprised but used those first to get on the paper. No feed issues with 180gr RN. Two groups were round and two strung vertically but I'm sure those were me. I haven't been able to shoot it for over a year and both front and rear sights are new to me.

I attached a piece of black plastic from a Hodgdon powder can with a 1/16" drill bit shaft to replicate the front sight blade on a repro base to determine approximate blade height needed. The range is covered so the front sight often looks more like a mirage which didn't help and target bull could have been a bit larger but it functioned ok. First group was a bit right. The Rice sight has limited windage adjustment and with it all the way to the left I was still 1.5 to 2" from center at 50yds with the last three groups in the same vertical plane so that is an issue that goes beyond basic functioning. 

I took a couple pictures trying to keep the rifle level as possible that show the barrel/sight/receiver alignment is off a bit to the left which we suspected caused the extractor cut to be off. When cleaning it last night the angle and light was right to see the barrel cut is to shifted to the left of the receiver cut.

   

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