A while back, I bought an MVA mid-range sight for my "Gemmerized" Pedersoli Sharps 1874. Before I pulled the old sight off, I wondered how to preserve my old zero and get the new sight set up properly.
My solution lay in my stock of card material for wads. I cut an angled bit from the end of a tablet backing card. 8 1/2" across the bottom and cut 1" at one end and 2" at the other. I notched it for the frame, and set it up against the old sight. I marked the zero with a pencil. Off came the old sight, and on went the shiny new MVA.
My homemade square did two things for me; 1. I could now set the sight vertically better than with the Mk I eyeball. 2. I adjusted the sight to the pencil mark from the old sight.
At the range, I was on the paper, first round, saving lots of time & ammo.
I also marked the square with other data. Sight radius. correction factor from the Brownells table. Finally, i marked it with a pencil for each range it was actually sighted for. I could now keep it in the shooting box for reference and "gross error" checks.