Fixed or adjustable sights

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Happy New Years Everyone!!! Was just wondering what type I sights everyone likes on there pistols

Mike:ar15:
 
Adjustable sight are only required if you shoot many different loads in your gun. If you shoot a single load, and the sights are regulated to that load and are easy to see, you're good to go.
 
I want adjustable sights on all my handguns. I reload for all my guns and so when I change the loads all I have to do is ajust the sights and I am good to go.

Graydog
 
I have gone away from adjustable sights as they break eventually. I am more likely to adjust a load for elevation or get a different height front sight than to change the rear sight and most of my loads to shoot fairly close POA/POI to begin with. Windage is a tap left or right.
 
As a youngster I wanted adjustable sights on all my guns, but today I'd sooner have the durability of fixed sights over the convenience and fragility of adjustable. I've had factory adjustable rear sights fall apart from the recoil of big bore revolvers, although the Rough Country sights from Bowen Classic Arms that I replaced them with never did, mostly because they use opposing screws in the windage adjustment rather than springs. Now I tend to use a single load in my handguns, but the fixed sight on my Ruger Vaquero was never a problem when shooting 325 gr WFNs and neither was the fixed sight on my S&W Hand Ejector .38 Special when shooting 195 gr SWCs. Clearly neither of those guns were sighted with those loads in mind. I did load and shoot a wide variety of loads in my M-27 S&W, but I don't recall ever having to adjust the sights to stay in the kill zone on any realistic target. I never noticed a change in windage when shooting 200 or 230 gr bullets in my .45 Auto and my 9mm didn't show a change in windage between 115 gr bullets and 147 gr loads. Differences in trajectory from one pistol load to another are easily compensated for and I' don't recall ever feeling like I needed to make a sight adjustment for elevation as I would with a rifle.
 
Just bought the Glock 17 gen 4 with the fixed sights now just waiting to go pick it up and head the the range.
 
If your handgun comes with fixed sights, and shoots to point of aim, well and good. If not, you have to mess with the fixed sights, change to adjustable, or experiment with Ammo. Both a CZ75 I had and a Beretta my friend just purchased, shot considerably low with the fixed sights. My solution was to install an adjustable rear sight. The P1 I purchased also shoots low. I may be able to get a lower front sight for it, otherwise it will be a file job.
Bill
 
That was my concern with the fixed sights but I was hoping to play around with the powder (+/-) if that is the case.
 
jackrabbit000 said:
combat gun - fixed
target gun - adjustable
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Either sight system will work with enough range time and familiarization, I own both on several handguns/same calibers, muscle memory & sight picture counts for a lot.
 
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