Dyslexic Brain Needs Help With SA-35 Sights

[JohnB-40]

I'm having problems coming to grips with the sights on my SA-35,which I guess are referred to as combat sights. I know the "FORS" formula but my brain is having a problem to put this in practice with this setup for some reason. Below is the sight picture that gets the POI dead center on target constantly off hand and supported on a rest. My question is which way do I have drift the rear sight looking down the slide until the POA and POI match? I don't want to be drifting it back and forth.

 

[ironworkerwill]

Front sights chase the impact, rear sights move the opposite way of impact

 

[MikeJackmin]

Imagine the gun held firmly in a vice, pointed exactly at the center of the target. All you need to do is move the rear sight to the right a little until it's nicely lined up.

 

[Varminterror]

Move rear sight to the right.

 

[Grunt]

Move the rear sight in the direction you want the bullet hole to go and the front sight is moved to “chase the bullet hole” depending on which sight you want to adjust.

 

[JohnB-40]

Thank you guys. I'll drift the sight right as you stated. It looks obvious but not to my brain. Next, I'll be working on backing up with a trailer. I know it is steer opposite to turn direction but haven't been able to execute that maneuver in the past 73 years.

 

[1KPerDay]

Thank you guys. I'll drift the sight right as you stated. It looks obvious but not to my brain. Next, I'll be working on backing up with a trailer. I know it is steer opposite to turn direction but haven't been able to execute that maneuver in the past 73 years.

My dad taught me the best method when I was twelve. Put your hand palm down on the bottom inside of the steering wheel and move your hand in the direction you want the rear of the trailer to go.

 

[9mmepiphany]

My dad taught me the best method when I was twelve. Put your hand palm down on the bottom inside of the steering wheel and move your hand in the direction you want the rear of the trailer to go.

Clever...I'm stealing it

 

[halfmoonclip]

Put your hand palm down on the bottom inside of the steering wheel and move your hand in the direction you want the rear of the trailer to go.

Well, a fine lot of help you are...where were you when I was trying to back up a quarter ton trailer, with a quarter ton M151A2.
As regards moving the sights, I have to rethink it every time. Happily, our M16s were marked.
For the OP, enjoy your SA-35. Great pistol.
Moon

 

[ironworkerwill]

Well, a fine lot of help you are...where were you when I was trying to back up a quarter ton trailer, with a quarter ton M151A2.
As regards moving the sights, I have to rethink it every time. Happily, our M16s were marked.
For the OP, enjoy your SA-35. Great pistol.
Moon

Try backing an M35A2( Deuce and a half) with a water buffalo behind it. Extreme sketch!

 

[Show Me]

Try backing an M35A2( Deuce and a half) with a water buffalo behind it. Extreme sketch!

Years ago a fella at Graves tried to back up with a Detroit running backwards.

 

[ironworkerwill]

Years ago a fella at Graves tried to back up with a Detroit running backwards.

The old 2 strokes do that sometimes especially if you stall them in a bind.

 

[Muddydogs]

You know you tow trailers to much when you go to back out of a parking space at the store and turn the wheel the wrong way thinking there is a trailer attached.

 

[vegasbillsliv]

To achieve accurate hits you should alter the rear sight position towards the direction your bullets are moving. Modification of your sight requires moving it downward when your shots are too low or correcting the direction for left-or-right deviations. A couple of minor adjustments should do the trick although continuous moving of the sight is unnecessary.

 

[1KPerDay]

To achieve accurate hits you should alter the rear sight position towards the direction your bullets are moving. Modification of your sight requires moving it downward when your shots are too low

Erm, no... Speaking generally, you move your rear sight the direction YOU WANT your bullet impacts to go. If your shots are too low, you RAISE the rear sight, not move it downward.

 

[halfmoonclip]

Erm, no... Speaking generally, you move your rear sight the direction YOU WANT your bullet impacts to go. If your shots are too low, you RAISE the rear sight, not move it downward.

And, since most of us don't do it all that often, and real adjustable sights are marked, it's mighty easy to get it bassackwards.
Moon

 

[9mmepiphany]

And, since most of us don't do it all that often, and real adjustable sights are marked, it's mighty easy to get it bassackwards.
Moon

Very true. I didn't realize the correct technique was subject to such contention.

1. The rear sight is moved in the direction that you want the shots to move. That is how adjustable sights are moved to move the POI

2. The front sight is moved in the opposite direction of where you want the shots to go

 

[halfmoonclip]

Very true. I didn't realize the correct technique was subject to such contention.

1. The rear sight is moved in the direction that you want the shots to move. That is how adjustable sights are moved to move the POI

2. The front sight is moved in the opposite direction of where you want the shots to go

Print this out, clip it on the gunsafe with a magnet!
Moon

 

[1KPerDay]

Supposedly the military teaches this with the acronym FORS:

Front
Opposite
Rear
Same

Meaning you move the rear in the same direction you want the bullet impacts to go, and the front sight in the opposite direction.

Not sure if that helps anyone, but just in case.