hawg
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Have you ever tried it?
My 60+ years tells me otherwise also. I do better with all my pinkies on the grip.
We're still talking about handgun grips, right?
Jim G
I apologize for doubting your technique and I'm glad you found the problem.
So the worse revolver requires a front sight movement of 4.4 / 900 x 5.75 = .028" to the left. OR, I need to add .028" x 2 = .056 inches to the left side of the front sight. OR, I nee to widen the rear sight V by .056 inches on its RIGHT side.
I don't know about adding to a sight blade.
Otherwise, not "OR", both. Which is what I had done, that way part of the adjustment is made on each sight, the change is less obvious.
As I said above, my rear sight was milled square from the old style V notch with a bias to the right AND the barrel was torqued to the left. Even so, the front sight is visibly out of plumb, but it shoots where it looks.
I read an article by one gunsmith who did not turn the barrel, he bent it! The curvature to correct the aim was imperceptible on a 7.5" cavalry model but he said it would show on a 3" sheriff's model. (My crooked ASM Schofield was not apparent except by looking at the target or a range rod.)
There is another solution. I saw a well worn SAA in the town museum of Hawthorne Nevada that had a rifle type ivory bead front sight dovetailed into the barrel. It looked a little funny but it sure gave that frontiersman a bold and adjustable sight picture.
I followed suit; when I converted a 1851 Navy reproduction to cartridge, the brass cone front sight did not work, not well aligned, not a reproducible sight picture. So FLG dovetailed the barrel and pushed in a plain black post, aligned for windage, the right height for elevation.
I will take a picture, no 30.
OK, here is that dovetailed 1851 front sight. It will be more obvious on a round barrel but it gives almost unlimited options for adjustment and sight picture.
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