92A1 Shooting Low
- Thread starter Mowens
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Interesting. I have the same problem with my T-series Browning HP- seems to shoot a few inches low with 124gn @ 12 yds. I'm not consistent enough with it yet to make a meaningful check at 25 yds., which I read somewhere is where it's zeroed for. I've thought of replacing the tiny military sights with larger ones. Even the fixed ones from Browning might allow me to make a little adjustment with a file. Don't really want to spring for adj. ones, though, esp. as there's the added cost of getting a gunsmith to mill a dovetail for a new front sight since the orig. is silver-soldered in, like a mil-spec 1911.
RememberTheSomme
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What sight picture are you using? Beretta 92's are meant to use sight picture 3. That's what I use and it is dead on.
Both image #1 and #3 are both retarded for a combat gun. Image one is for one handed bulls eye shooters with lot's of flip and image three is for people who don't like to see what they shoot at. The three dots were conceived for low visibility situations and suppose to help position the patridge sights properly and anyone setting up their guns from factory for a normal shooter with normal ammo to have to cover his target to strike in the center were probably dropped on their head at birth.
In all three pictures, the sights are aligned properly,.. patridge style the very best handgun sight! This is all you need. Get rid of those GD dots, they mean nothing. Have your bullet striking on the top of your front sight at 15-20 that's it.
Image number two is correct for a combat handgun. Top of the sight is both POA and POI! So I guess the 92 needs 147 gr ammo or a new lower front sight to obtain this.
RTS, consider what 2 and 3 are doing and I think you'll agree that both will shoot to the same POI. The only difference between these two is the roughly 2 to 3mm of height difference between the top of the sights and the center of the dots. Which few would ever notice. To get from #2 we just lift the gun up completely parallel by enough to line up the dots instead of the top of the sights by that tiny little amount.
Up in Canada we don't have a lot of need to shoot in low light where just aligning the white or glowing dots would be a big help. And really that's what I see the use of the dots as being. And for us I do agree that some black felt pen on at least the dots on the rear sight is a big help in getting a quicker sight picture for speed related matches. For casual slow paced target shooting? Really doesn't matter either way.
Up in Canada we don't have a lot of need to shoot in low light where just aligning the white or glowing dots would be a big help. And really that's what I see the use of the dots as being. And for us I do agree that some black felt pen on at least the dots on the rear sight is a big help in getting a quicker sight picture for speed related matches. For casual slow paced target shooting? Really doesn't matter either way.
Unless you bought some really junk ammo I'd say that those strays were the hangover pulling the trigger instead of you....
That ammo would be fine but you'll simply have to aim a trifle high when shooting with it at anything smaller and more demanding.
