Ruger P-345 sight picture

[sjdude]

I've owned a Ruger P-345 for a couple of years now and am trying hard to like it. My biggest beef with it is the sight picture, which seems to require me to position the front blade way above the top of the rear sight. There's horizontal adjustment on the rear sight, but no vertical adjustment (pry bar?). I sent the gun back to Ruger right after buying it because the front sight blade was installed at least 0.125 inch off to the left! They fixed that and sent it back with a perfect test target, but to me, the sight picture seems screwed up vertically. I don't have this issue with any other hand gun I shoot. Anybody else experience this issue?

Thanks.

 

[AK103K]

It sounds like you need either a shorter front sight, or an adjustable rear.

 

[stchman]

Post pics of the sight picture.

 

[1KPerDay]

WHY do you have to position the front blade above the top of the rear sight ears?

Do you mean that unless you do the point of impact is off? Or that the three dots (if applicable) don't line up with each other?

 

[Shipwreck]

Are you doing a 6 o'clock hold, or are you COVERING the target with the front dot?

You want sight picture #3

 

[Shipwreck]

Are you doing sight picture #2, and then wondering why it hits low, so then you are raising the front blade?

 

[sjdude]

Perhaps you've nailed it, yes, I have been using #2. But I have to hold the front way higher than the diagram might suggest. That said, I'm going to try #3 on my next trip to the range and see how it works. THANK YOU!

 

[rcmodel]

If you have to use #3, it is wrong.

Your sights are covering the target and you cannot see what the target is doing.
If the target happens to have a gun.

#1 is my preference, because I'm an old school target shooter & hunter.

#2 is alright at close bad-breath gunfight range.

#3 is unexceptable for any use to me because it covers the target and you have no aiming point at all.

rc

 

[weblance]

If you have to use #3, it is wrong.

#3 is unacceptable for any use to me because it covers the target and you have no aiming point at all.

Sight Picture #3 is a combat hold. The P345 is a combat pistol. It is not a target gun.

 

[AK103K]

#3 is how most of three dot sights Ive ever used are zeroed. The bullet goes to the center dot.

Ive never found it to be an issue, and Ive been shooting the three dot sights so long now, I actually see the dots as the sight picture, instead of a traditional sight picture, out to about 20-25 yards.

 

[JTQ]

I'm not familiar with what Ruger requires, but I think rcmodel is correct.

My understanding is #3 is generally a SIG sight picture which for the most part is an outlier in 3-dot sighting.

 

[AK103K]

Its been my experience that when using three dot sights, and holding image #1 above, using a 6 o'clock hold, the group will be below the 6 o'clock point on the target (generally under the dot).

Use the same hold (6 o'clock), using the alignment in image #3, and the group will be at POA on the bull.

Its been that way with my SIG's, my Glocks, my old Colt 1911's, and a few others.

Regardless, at closer range, and shooting realistically, I doubt it really matters. The POI is going to be "close enough for government work".

 

[JDGray]

Sig is the only gun sighted like #3, that I have fired. Except my Sig 1911 is sighted correctly like #1

What I don't understand, is just how big is the target? Not much difference between #1 and #2 if its a 3/4" target sticker like I shoot at! If that's a 12" bull, I'd prefer #2