More Ruger Wrangler

[doubleh]

Anyone that has read the posts I made about mine knows what I think about it but I made an improvement that seems to have helped some in the accuracy department. It was pretty simple. Even with the dull so called silver coat that Ruger uses I was getting some glare on my front sight so out came the flat black paint and I painted the sight groove in the frame and the entire front sight. Yesterday at the range shooting from the same place I aways do I managed better groups. I also did the same treatment with a couple of rough riders. The single sixes have never needed help. Of course everyone knows glare on your sights is problematic so I used a cheap solution for cheap guns to counteract it. The wrangler still didn't quite equal any of the others but came fairly close to my bird's head gripped RR. It's good enough to turn the grandkids loose with now. I will let the two oldest shoot the single sixes but the younger ones are still confined to the cheap ones so there won't be any teeth gritting when one gets dropped.

 

[jstert]

It's good enough to turn the grandkids loose with now. I

here is the excellent use for the ruger wrangler. it’s the perfect educational handgun: safe, forces deliberation to employ to accurate effect, inexpensive to feed.

 

[entropy]

Anyone that has read the posts I made about mine knows what I think about it but I made an improvement that seems to have helped some in the accuracy department. It was pretty simple. Even with the dull so called silver coat that Ruger uses I was getting some glare on my front sight so out came the flat black paint and I painted the sight groove in the frame and the entire front sight. Yesterday at the range shooting from the same place I aways do I managed better groups. I also did the same treatment with a couple of rough riders. The single sixes have never needed help. Of course everyone knows glare on your sights is problematic so I used a cheap solution for cheap guns to counteract it. The wrangler still didn't quite equal any of the others but came fairly close to my bird's head gripped RR. It's good enough to turn the grandkids loose with now. I will let the two oldest shoot the single sixes but the younger ones are still confined to the cheap ones so there won't be any teeth gritting when one gets dropped.

There should be teeth gritting when that happens, followed by the weeping and gnashing of teeth of the offender, unless they've just been shot, or ordered to do so by LE. (who don't say 'drop it' anymore anyway) That should be followed by sitting out the rest of the range session, followed by the offender being required to pick up all the brass fired.

 

[sparkyv]

I may need to wear some sort of prescription shooting glasses to help me out with my Wrangler. Maybe I'll start with this:

out came the flat black paint and I painted the sight groove in the frame and the entire front sight.

 

[Tallball]

I used to paint a lot of my sights with red nail polish.

As I'm getting older, I'm finding that black is starting to work better for me.

 

[doubleh]

There should be teeth gritting when that happens, followed by the weeping and gnashing of teeth of the offender, unless they've just been shot, or ordered to do so by LE. (who don't say 'drop it' anymore anyway) That should be followed by sitting out the rest of the range session, followed by the offender being required to pick up all the brass fired.

They are kids and kids drop stuff so there will only be teeth gritting and then a rebuke about being careful because a gun is not a toy. Being careful has already been explained of course but they are still kids. Now if one were to throw one down deliberately things would be a little different in the consequences. As to picking up brass the adults have to get out of the way or get run over with this bunch as they hit the ground running after exiting the vehicles upon arrival. The trouble is they don't exactly know the difference between brass, aluminum, and steel except for the two oldest and the oldest isn't as eager as she once was to bend over and pick up empties. She is 15 years old now and more interested in helping get the targets set up. She is the one that shows granpa up sometime and makes him grumble at her for being a young upstart while secretly being proud of her. She is also smart enough to know that the grumbling is fake.

 

[Riomouse911]

I, too have issues with stainless, nickel and other silvery colored sights. To me they just disappear and any chance for consistency goes straight to “luck-of-the-shots.”

Most of my silvery guns get the white-then-orange model paint like the S&W’s below, but I haven’t done that with the narrow Wrangler front sight on my Birdshead.



The Birdshead got the matte Sharpie treatment on the sights like yours got paint, which (so far) has helped me with aiming this little gun a lot. It’s still not a tack driver, but it’s accurate enough to play with and not get frustrated.



Stay safe.