Drifting Shadow 2 Rear Sight

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Man, that new beveled slide really doesn't make it easy to drift the rear sight. I need to move it to the right, and have removed the two set screws, and attempted to persuade the sight to move with a 1/4 inch brass punch and a hammer, but so far I haven't found a good method to get a solid base to whack it on. Even those non-marring jaws in my vice want to flip up and dump the slide.

Has anyone gone through this and how did you do it?
 
I use a proper sight pushing tool, of course it cost $130.00 US but it works. You could grab a chunk of wood and make a fixture/caul to hold your slide and then punch away. Simple woodworking skills required as well as a table saw.
 
Am glad I saw this thread before taking my new Shadow2 to the range. I went prepared and glad I did, gun was shooting to the left and I had to
move the rear sight over. The verdict is still out on just what I think of the pistol. Will say it's very accurate for a out of the box gun.
 
Mine shot slightly low and to the left out of the box as well. Drifted sight wee bit to the right and adjusted elevation and is now on target.

Had to heat the 2 set screws with tip of my soldering iron for awhile to loosen the locktite and took several heathy blows to the aluminum punch to drift the sight.

Love the weight and feel of this gun. Going to give it a run this wknd in it's first IPSC match and see how it compares to my SP 01 Shadow.
 
For those of you without a 3D printer to run off a support block I'm looking at the pictures and thinking that a buddy holding a hunk of brass or aluminium against the side of the top ridge might just serve as enough of an "anvil" for a tap with a hammer and brass punch to shock the sight into moving.
 
Northaways said:
Mine shot slightly low and to the left out of the box as well. Drifted sight wee bit to the right and adjusted elevation and is now on target.

Had to heat the 2 set screws with tip of my soldering iron for awhile to loosen the locktite and took several heathy blows to the aluminum punch to drift the sight.

Love the weight and feel of this gun. Going to give it a run this wknd in it's first IPSC match and see how it compares to my SP 01 Shadow.
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It's going to be a couple weeks before I get mine on a IPSC course but am interested in how you do at your next shoot. Are you planning on starting the course in single or double action? Probably try both and see which one you prefer? I've been shooting Glocks and a 1911 .45 This is my first SA-DA pistol. Mine seems from what little testing I did has quite a hard pull in DA. Keep us posted. Thanks!
 
It's not cheaping out, it's actually a great design for a sight. If, and it's very seldom needed, if, your gun is shooting left or right, drift the sight to correct, once that's done, it should never need to be done again. Whereas adjusting for elevation is needed if you change loads or bullet weights.
 
NB Rifles said:
It's going to be a couple weeks before I get mine on a IPSC course but am interested in how you do at your next shoot. Are you planning on starting the course in single or double action? Probably try both and see which one you prefer? I've been shooting Glocks and a 1911 .45 This is my first SA-DA pistol. Mine seems from what little testing I did has quite a hard pull in DA. Keep us posted. Thanks!
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If you run it in IPSC Production you have to run it hammer down, DA first shot. If you start cocked and on safety you either take a procedural (I think is the rule?) or you shoot Standard.
 
Slavex said:
It's not cheaping out, it's actually a great design for a sight. If, and it's very seldom needed, if, your gun is shooting left or right, drift the sight to correct, once that's done, it should never need to be done again. Whereas adjusting for elevation is needed if you change loads or bullet weights.
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Rob will this sight fit the dovetail of the regular SP-01/75 Series of pistols as well. Spot on with your opinion of the sight. Sounds like a winner.

Folks before some of you pick up mallet in hand make sure your gun is indeed shooting left or right. CZ pistols are usually regulated pretty much dead center from my experience. Shooting low left and left is quite common to right handed shooters when they don't get their grip/trigger pull right.

Take Care

Bob
 
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Yes, I have Shadow 2 rear sights on my match guns, they are oversized so it does take a bit of filing on the sight to fit them to the slide.
As you mention Bob, Shadows, including the 2s, are generally bang on for mechanical sighting lining up with the bore. 99.99999999999% of the time if they are shooting low left or high right, it's the shooter. The other 0.000000000001% (I think that's the right number of zeros) if the gun is shooting low right or high left, it's the shooter, only this time a lefty not a righty. For the remaining 0.00000000% the gun might be off. This actually applies to the vast majority of pistols made. Sometimes the sights are in fact adjusted wrong at the factory and restoring them to center fixes them
 
To the shooters who may be experiencing left or right results just take a look at the rear sight and see if you can see if the sight is off center to the top of the slide. I have played a bit with one of my other makes of guns and just by eye balling the rear sight as it relates to the center of the slide gets me dead center results 99,9% of the time. As Rob mentioned CZ's are notoriously boring for centering their sights. He may have not included enough zeros in his calculations. :>)

Take Care

Bob
 
Mine was shooting significantly left at 30 yards. I shot with both hands, strong hand and weak hand. All left. Then I rested the front and it was still left. So while it could be me, I still adjusted it.


I left the gun together (did not take the slide off the frame). Put it in a foam pad on my concrete floor and with my weak hand holding the brass punch I used my weak arm to hold the gun firmly, then hit the punch with the hammer lightly. It did not move. I hit it it harder. It did not move. I hit it repeatedly with moderate force. It did not move.


I called my buddy with a sight pusher, but I wasn't able to get it from him for about a week and I'm impatient.


I went back to the original plan and with one VERY hard smash it moved... a little too much. I tapped it back the other way a bit and low and behold when I went to the range it was perfect.
 
ndb86 said:
Mine was shooting significantly left at 30 yards. I shot with both hands, strong hand and weak hand. All left. Then I rested the front and it was still left. So while it could be me, I still adjusted it.


I left the gun together (did not take the slide off the frame). Put it in a foam pad on my concrete floor and with my weak hand holding the brass punch I used my weak arm to hold the gun firmly, then hit the punch with the hammer lightly. It did not move. I hit it it harder. It did not move. I hit it repeatedly with moderate force. It did not move.


I called my buddy with a sight pusher, but I wasn't able to get it from him for about a week and I'm impatient.


I went back to the original plan and with one VERY hard smash it moved... a little too much. I tapped it back the other way a bit and low and behold when I went to the range it was perfect.
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Guess I was lucky, the set screws broke loose fairly easy and it didn't take much of a effort to tap the back sight over. I tested the gun on a resting position with Winchester factory 115's some of my hand loaded 124's and 147's they all shot to the left until I adjusted the sight. I've found most all new pistols I've had and been around needed some sight adjustment. No big deal IMO.
 
NB Rifles said:
Guess I was lucky, the set screws broke loose fairly easy and it didn't take much of a effort to tap the back sight over. I tested the gun on a resting position with Winchester factory 115's some of my hand loaded 124's and 147's they all shot to the left until I adjusted the sight. I've found most all new pistols I've had and been around needed some sight adjustment. No big deal IMO.
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My set screws came out easily, but the sight was VERY VERY tight.
 
Slavex said:
Yes, I have Shadow 2 rear sights on my match guns, they are oversized so it does take a bit of filing on the sight to fit them to the slide.
As you mention Bob, Shadows, including the 2s, are generally bang on for mechanical sighting lining up with the bore. 99.99999999999% of the time if they are shooting low left or high right, it's the shooter. The other 0.000000000001% (I think that's the right number of zeros) if the gun is shooting low right or high left, it's the shooter, only this time a lefty not a righty. For the remaining 0.00000000% the gun might be off. This actually applies to the vast majority of pistols made. Sometimes the sights are in fact adjusted wrong at the factory and restoring them to center fixes them
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Totally agree. I Always bench rest a gun first if I feel the sights are off. Confirms it.

For what it's worth my Shadow 1 was spot on from the factory.
Both of the PPQ's I had were a bit off.
 
NB Rifles said:
It's going to be a couple weeks before I get mine on a IPSC course but am interested in how you do at your next shoot. Are you planning on starting the course in single or double action? Probably try both and see which one you prefer? I've been shooting Glocks and a 1911 .45 This is my first SA-DA pistol. Mine seems from what little testing I did has quite a hard pull in DA. Keep us posted. Thanks!
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Shooting production so first shot has to be in DA.
 
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