Beretta "Stampede" aim point

[kens]

I have a Beretta Stampede in 357 mag, its great to shoot, I like the feel of it in my hand, the trigger, in fact just about everything except that it shoots 6 inches low and 6 inches to the right of the aim point at 50 feet.

I have never had a heavy calibre revolver before. If I place the top of the front site flush and centered with the sides of the groove and on the centre of the target as I do shooting my S&W or Browning 22 calibre it is reliably 6 in low and 6 in to the right.

Is this typical? There are no sight adjustments of course so other than aiming high and left is there any cure?

 

[ben hunchak]

Well to lower your impact you can file down your front sight or go to a heavier bullet, or both, to move impact to the, side barrel can be screwed/unscrewed somewhat.

 

[BCRider]

I've gone through this with my own SAA cowboy guns recently. They come with taller front posts than needed so you can file them down to suit your ammo. Most of the lighter bullet loads are too fast and come out of the barrel before it kicks up far enough to hit at POA.

I was also going through this with my S&W model 10 that has fixed sights too. I had left it sit for a few months until I got into reloading. Once I was ready I did up some test loads to suit my Model 10 and then I used the rounds loaded to that spec to tune the front sights of my SAA guns. This way I'm set up for all three guns with one common performing ammo. The ammo may use different bullet weights but the key is that I tailor the ammo to shoot to the Model 10's desires and then it's equally fine for the SAA's.

The moral of this long tale of woe is to find a load that fits within the CAS rules for velocity or just pick SOMETHING that you know you can get for years to come and then slowly work the front sight down to where it's hitting at POA. Just be sure you're not struggling through a flinching period at the time you're setting this up...

The shooting to the right is likely your grip and to some extent the amount of finger on the trigger. I've found that my own SAA guns are far more sensitive to how I grip the guns than my other double action revolvers. Not as much to hold onto I suppose, along with the grips allowing a wider range of holds.