Hitting to the right with my Glock

[GRIZ22]

honestly i believe this to be shooter error and not the sights to be changed.

I disagree. There may be something to what others say about grip angle. The agency I worked for bought 17s, 19s, amd 26s in 1998. That was about 600 for my office. I helped conduct the transition training and about 80% of the guns were hitting to the left for right handers and to the right for left handers.

Sight adjustments fixed all of them.

 

[figment]

I've seen a lot of guns recently with the rear sight way off to one side out of the box. Maybe you corrected a factory issue...best thing is to have someone else who is a better shot shoot it or watch you shoot. No way to debug it here.

 

[sprocket3]

I just thought you pointed them and pulled the trigger real quick. It's DA only!

 

[kmbrman]

Shooting POI different from POA

In the manufacturing of pistols ,the manufacturer does'nt know what variety of loads the buyer will be shooting. They can only pick a known weight ,say 115 FMJ in 9mm. made by a factory and sight their pistols to shoot POA. Another load by another manufacturer may shoot way off from the test load,due to no fault of the gunmaker. Different brands and weights can fool us though,as in the case of Fiocchi's 147 JHP. which for some reason shoots to the same POI as 115 JHP UMC from Walmart ,go figure. These two loads differ a great deal in weight ,but shoot to same POI. To mess you up even more ,the pistols I saw this in are my Glock 17L longslide and Glock 26 also, as well as an S&W M&P 9mm fullsize.

 

[Lv4snobrdg]

sight picture and adjustments aside my experience with glock is shaky. with my single actions with short trigger pull I can do 2" shot groups at 25m,my ranges max range for pistols, with any of them. When I have a full trigger pull, like a double action which is how a glock feels to me, my groups expand and are usually to the left, since glocks have the "trigger safety" then have this long trigger pull, my wifes M&P does this to me as well.

I have alot of experience shooting in the military and the instructors there will tell you that, typically & consistently, left and right is trigger pull, up and down is breathing, but both are affected by bad sight picture.

Lots of good advice here so here's more I would bring the target in close, use a ring/circle target not a silhouette (they are for fun not for testing accuracy), and put a mag through it, move the next target away and repeat. If you see the result of the holes being farther to the side, and on the same side as the target moves back its probably sights. If its inconsistent then its all you. But as long as your sight picture doesn't change and your point of aim is the same you should have tight groups.

Never EVER adjust your sights unless you are firing tight groups.

Peace

 

[tehweej]

Lv4- When I first sighted-in my pistol, that is almost what I did. I used a cardboard silhouette (as a target holder) and then stapled targets to it. My groups were nothing to write home about, but they were consistently to the right. (~3 inches at 10 yards IIRC) Moved the sight, POI moved closerd to POA, moved it again, and it is now right on (good enough for me, I have taken some 75+ yd shots with it and missed to every side of what I was aiming at. So I figure the sights are on, I just need to get better )

I was shooting new factory 230gr Remington UMC Mega-Pack for a while, but now I am shooting reloads. They both shoot about the same from what I can tell, but I have not taken and bench-rested to see.