A Sight In Day

[AzShooter1]

1. A Day To Sight In​

   

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Today I needed to sight in two of my guns. I decided to replace the LPA rear sight on my Smith & Wesson Model 617 with a C-More Railway on a 90 º mount that I had forgotten I had. Fun remembering that windage screw and elevation are now replaced with the screws on top and side of the mount. Elevation being the windage screw and windage being elevation.


I started at 7 yards and shot for groups 1 1/2 inch below center. This should bring me dead on at 15 and again enough on at the 18 X 24 inch plates at 35 yards.

When I got back to 15 I was 3 inches low and 4 inches to the left. I shot stings of 3 and followed them in until I was dead center. Remington Golden Bullets work great in my 617. I can run upwards of 500 rounds before I need to clean the cylinder. I ended up shooting 150 rounds of Goldens and then 50 rounds of Norma Tac 22 to see if if they would fire in my tuned Smith.

Next I took out my Black Mamba from Volquartsen. I've been shooting Rimfire Pistol Irons for the past five months and decided I wanted to go back to a red dot. I found my old C-More Railway that had the mount still on its. Funny how things happen, I had 3 C-Mores and took the mount off two of them to be used on my revolvers. The third was in hiding. I ordered a base for one of them so I could mount it on the Volquartsen and guess what, the day the mount came in I found the Railway with the base..

Starting at 7 yards again this gun shoots one ragged hole groups. I was dead center from the start and moved to 15 to confirm smy sight settings. With CCI Clean ammo. It really is cleaner. I don't have to take a brush to the gun as often and haven't needed to clean tme compensator in 2000 rounds.

I'm now set with two guns. ready for speed on steel and anxious to go to the next match.

 

[AzShooter1]

 

[Riomouse911]

Man, I wish my 10-shot 6” Model 617 had a trigger pull worthy of a target gun. Even with cleaning and lightly polishing internals, reduced power rebound spring, shooting about 2,000 shots through it, etc. it is still herky-jerky, stacky and is just not good when shooting DA. (By far my worst S&W revolver trigger, ever )

(My Mk IV has a Volquartsen trigger set, like yours it is 1.5 lbs with zero creep or overtravel .)

Nice to read that your guns are all sighted in and ready for action

Stay safe.

 

[AzShooter1]

Model 617s are a bear to get a good trigger pull. You have to keep them heavy enough to ignite all those .22s so your hammer fall can't be as light as you can get centerfires. This gun has had a lot of work done to it. It's got a RevUp Action Hammer Kit installed. Pretty much a drop in kit but you need to play a lot with the springs provided in the kit. Too light and the trigger will bind up and not set off the primers.

All internals have been highly polished with stones.

There's also the Apex Mass Drive Hammer Kit from Apex Tactical. I can get a lighter DA pull using it. You really have to try both to see which one you like best.

If you like the standard trigger the Mas Drive is for you. If Apex has them in stock. The RevUp Hammer is totally different and the pull gets lighter as you stroke the trigger.
Thanks for the compliments.

 

[halfmoonclip]

Smith .22s with additional chambers are weird. I've a long used stainless Kit Gun that is wonderfully slick, but a much newer 317 has been challenging to smooth up. The shorter ratchets give less leverage to make the cylinder 'carry up', which is part of the problem. Having gone in 3 or 4 times, it's finally pretty good, but not as good as the older all steel 6 shot.
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