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Hi,

When I got my 4095, I noticed that the front sight was canted off to one side.

With the carbine, the rear sight is mounted on the receiver shroud and the front site is "set-screw" mounted on the barrel. here is a difference in the alignment of the sites to the bore axis.

To sight the carbine in.. start at 10 yards. Set the rear sight in the mid point laterally and the height adjustment about a turn off of bottom. Set the front sight so that it is absolutely verticle to the barrel of the carbine. Now shoot 5 rounds with the carbine in a rest (front of stock can rest of sand bags or such to support) so that the 5 shots are fired with the carbine aligned as consistant as possible for each shot. Now notice where the shots place on the target. Loosen the front sight set-screw and rotate slightly the sight mount either left or right, depending on where the shots hit the target. Don't worry about height adjustment yet. Now if the bullets hit the target to the left, move the front sight to the left. If the bullets hit the target to the right, move the front sight to the right. Do this for several shot groups till you get a group that is fairly inline horizontally with the sight alighment. Once you get "close" to horizontal point of aim as you can, tighten the front sight set-screw and fire another round of 5. You might find at this point that the bullets point of impact as moved slightly from the last setting. This is because the set-screw will slightly move the front sight mount as it locks in position. Final adjustment to "zero" in the shots will be done with the rear sight. For final horizontal "zero", if the bullets are striking slightly left of the point of aim, move the rear sight adjustment to the right. If the bullets are striking slightly right of the point of aim, move the rear sight adjustment to the left.

Now with the shot being placed horizontally to the point of aim, it is time to move the target out to the 25 yard point. You are doin this to vertically "zero" the shots to the point of aim. Fire a 5 shot group and see where the bullets strike the target. Again this is with the carbine in a rest position (sand bags). If the above process was done properly, then the bullets will strike the target close to the point of aim horizontally but not vertically. Adjust rear sight as stated above to re-align for horizontal "zero". Now if the bullets are striking below the point of aim, then adjust the rear sight up. If the bullets are striking above the point of aim, adjust the rear sigh down. This is just to get the "zero" of the carbine to the point of aim at 25 Yards. Depending on where (how far out) you want to use the carbine, you can do a ballistics analysis to see where the bullet should strike at 75 and 100 yards with a 25 yard "zero".

This whole process was what I had to do to "zero" in my carbine. Once I had it in, I could adjust the rear sight to the brand of ammo bullet weight and distance I wanted to shoot.

I have since mounted a scope on my carbine and had to go through the whole process again to include loosening the scope mounting brackets and remounting the scope to get it back inline with the "bore" of the carbine. I did this at 10 yards. Once the mounting alignment was done, I proceded to "zero" in at 10 yards and then out to 25 yards.

It is a slow process but it works. Also I have done this not only with the Hi-Point, but with every other long-gun and handgun that I've owned that had an adjustable sight.

Don't give up on the gun yet. Do what you can and see if it works. Rarely have I had a gun come straight from the factory and hit where I want. And if you ever mount a scope, red-dot, laser, etc. you will find sometimes you have to play with the mounts to get it to "print" on paper before you even start to adjust the adjustment screws.. GRIN

Have Fun, hope this helped,

TexasBullFrog