Sight adjustment question

[Ganderite]

I have been thinking about this issue and making sketches, trying to figure it out.

I find that with my old eyes I need to make the rear notch on a pistol sight wider. I don't do this until I see which way the gun shoots. If it shoots right, I make the notch wider on the left side.

I have a gun that needs this adjustment. the front sight is very wide, so I intend to make it more narrow, to give me the clear band of white I want to see on each side of the front sight.

I would like the gun to shoot more to the right. Which side of the front sight do I remove the material from?

This is not the same as moving the front sight. I know it would have to go left.

 

[mmattockx]

I would like the gun to shoot more to the right. Which side of the front sight do I remove the material from?

Remove material from the RH side of the front sight.


Mark

 

[Lodi]

The direction you want the bullet to go, remember -- FORS ~ Front Opposite Rear Same, when adjusting the sight.

In your example, remove material from the right side of the front sight, to move impact to the right.

If the gun is a revolver, turning the barrel in/out of the frame will change point-of-impact also.

 

[crackerbarrel2]

I find .125 wide front sight posts a bit to large for me.I have been swapping them out for fibre op (red) and I found this helped a lot..

 

[plinker 777]

The direction you want the bullet to go, remember -- FORS ~ Front Opposite Rear Same, when adjusting the sight.

In your example, remove material from the right side of the front sight, to move impact to the right.

If the gun is a revolver, turning the barrel in/out of the frame will change point-of-impact also.

Thanks for this, I always struggle to remember which sight and where to move it! I love these little..."remembering tools?" they have a name...but not a "remembering tool" to remember what the tools are called!...and that's some irony



Nope, acronym isn't what I'm searching for...

 

[Lodi]

... "remembering tool" ...

I knew one guy who was constantly tinkering with his sights, and was constantly asking "which way?" when at the range. He finally took a marker and wrote a large FORS on his earmuffs.

 

[Silverado]

Mnemonic is the word you're looking for, and removing material from the right side is the answer Ganderite is looking for.

 

[plinker 777]

Woo, Mnemonic is even fun to say. Now, why is there no Mnemonic to remember the word Mnemonic?


Sorry Ganderite, I'm bored as he11 if you couldn't tell.

 

[BCRider]

Mmattockx nailed it above. Removing material from the RH side is the same as shifting the blade to the left.

 

[silverfoxdj]

tagged..

 

[WRH]

When I drift a sight and I'm not sure which way to go, I imagine the sight bring off by a wide margin (like a foot). I find it makes the direction obvious.

 

[Ganderite]

Thank for the answers. I learned 60 years ago which way to move both sights. Not an issue and not the question.

If I shave the right side of the front sight, that side will show too much white. So I would have to move the front of the gun to the right to even the sides. That would move the bullets to the right. OK. That makes sense.

Moving the muzzle to the right is not the same as moving the front sight to the right. That is what was making me second guess myself.

 

[Lodi]

Moving the muzzle to the right is not the same as moving the front sight to the right.

Agreed.

In your scenario, substitute 'sight' with 'centerline of sight'. As material is removed, the centerline will move also.