Girsan owners, will a Beretta adj. or after market equiv. work?

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I'm looking to mount an adjustable or even just a taller rear sight on my Girsan Yavuz Regard 16. My question is whether an aftermarket or Beretta mfg. rear sight for the 92 series will work? I do know that quite a few parts are interchangeable, infact the Girsan comes with Mecgar mags from Italy. Thanks in advance.
 
I figure as much zelly, tks for the response. You're right though, be nice to know for certain. Though, if you go to the girsan website, and check out "accessories" the rear sights they have on their sight pretty much look identical to aftermarket sights available online so I am totally leaning toward the fact that they will fit. How does yours shoot for you? I'm consistently centre of mass and low. I have to compensate to shoot bullseye at 20m. More experienced shooters are not dead on either and low with my pistol, though not as much as me....so I will need to get a taller rear sight or adj. rear. I had the same issue with my Glock. I installed a 8$ factory taller rear sight and, I was bang on!
 
The issue you may be having with your pistol shooting low, is that the Berettas (and as a result, the Girsans) use a "center hold" sight picture (just google it). Basically, line up the 3 dots and place the front sight dot where you want the round to go. Not like in a rifle where you line up the front and rear and use the top edge (if that makes sense). It certainly took me some getting uses to.
 
Lexthedestroyer said:
The issue you may be having with your pistol shooting low, is that the Berettas (and as a result, the Girsans) use a "center hold" sight picture (just google it). Basically, line up the 3 dots and place the front sight dot where you want the round to go. Not like in a rifle where you line up the front and rear and use the top edge (if that makes sense). It certainly took me some getting uses to.
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Thanks for the advice Lex. I will give that a try, in fact maybe tonight at the range!! :)
 
The Beretta sight uses a wider dovetail than the Girsan. I ordered one from Brownells,Beretta part no c60428, and it will not fit into the Girsan dovetail. I took a file to the sight and took about 0.030" off it to get it to slide in the dovetail. Once it's in it is also very close to being physically too wide for the slide.It just barely clears the safety lever on the left side by thousandths of an inch.It's not touching but it's REALLY close. Haven't had a chance to get to the range yet to sight it in and see if it will help my point of aim.There are some reports of it shooting too high with the adjustable.

My problem of hitting low tends to be from using low powered reloads I believe.I don't crank up the powder in anything I'm loading and always find any new gun I get hits low.Generally I load things down to the point where they work reliably without feeding issues and that's where I stay.I've accepted that I usually need to put an adjustable rear sight on anything I buy.Actually I'm looking for an adjustable now for an STI I bought last week.It's hitting about 4" low with my reloads.
 
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caperaway said:
The Beretta sight uses a wider dovetail than the Girsan. I ordered one from Brownells,Beretta part no c60428, and it will not fit into the Girsan dovetail. I took a file to the sight and took about 0.30" off it to get it to slide in the dovetail. Once it's in it is also very close to being physically too wide for the slide.It just barely clears the safety lever on the left side by thousandths of an inch.It's not touching but it's REALLY close. Haven't had a chance to get to the range yet to sight it in and see if it will help my point of aim.There are some reports of it shooting too high with the adjustable.

My problem of hitting low tends to be from using low powered reloads I believe.I don't crank up the powder in anything I'm loading and always find any new gun I get hits low.Generally I load things down to the point where they work reliably without feeding issues and that's where I stay.I've accepted that I usually need to put an adjustable rear sight on anything I buy.Actually I'm looking for an adjustable now for an STI I bought last week.It's hitting about 4" low with my reloads.
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Good to know about the dovetail, I'm not averse to doing some diy smithing on non critical parts. Thanks for the post caper!!!
 
Lexthedestroyer said:
The issue you may be having with your pistol shooting low, is that the Berettas (and as a result, the Girsans) use a "center hold" sight picture (just google it). Basically, line up the 3 dots and place the front sight dot where you want the round to go. Not like in a rifle where you line up the front and rear and use the top edge (if that makes sense). It certainly took me some getting uses to.
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Sounds like they shoot like an HK pistol?
 
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