I recently had an experience that I just had to tell you all about. Mainly I just want to run my thought process by the brain trust and see if there’s anything im missing so I can get things squared away in the next range trip instead of over the next month of range trips. Sorry, this is going to be a long one.
I’m working on making the switch from Irons to a red dot on a pistol. I’ve been doing tons of dry fire and draw strokes, watching a lot of YouTube University, and I have a class on the books this fall with Modern Samurai Project. Set up is a Gen4 Glock 19 with TRYBE Defense milled slide and a trijicon RMR with the anti flicker sealing plate.
yesterday I went shooting, and with the two main goals for me being confirming that the irons and dot were both zeroed, and that there weren’t any issues that would make it unwise to start carrying that on the daily instead of either the stock slide with Proctor Y notch sights or (like I’ve been doing) the G29.
so I’m shooting 10 round strings at a 2 inch circle at 10 yards. The results were consistently low or to the right. Not a low right group, but I’d have 2 separate groups, one 3 inches low, but dead on left and right, and the other 3 inches to the right but dead on vertically. I’m cross eye dominant so I tried strings of fire with both eyes open and with my left eye closed thinking it might be a funky vision thing, results were the same. I wanted to make sure it wasn’t a me problem so I shot ten rounds through my Ruger 22 pistol (admittedly a much easier gun to shoot but i didn’t feel like using any of my 10mm carry ammo) and I was getting slightly low groups about 2 inches in diameter. I went and checked the screws holding the optic and they were both tight, but I was able to get one of them about a quarter turn tighter, with zero change in results.
Only other thing that was unusual was that the irons rear sight had to be adjusted pretty far to the right to get me hitting where I wanted to be.
the obvious problems I can think of:
- I’m shifting my focus from the target to the red dot and not maintaining target focus
- issue with the slide milling being out of spec and sight moving under recoil
- I’m doing something funky with my trigger control and grip
- slide being out of spec and not properly allinged with the barrel.
just wondering if anyone else has had this problem, or if there’s any other possible culprit that I should be looking at?
thanks guys
I’m working on making the switch from Irons to a red dot on a pistol. I’ve been doing tons of dry fire and draw strokes, watching a lot of YouTube University, and I have a class on the books this fall with Modern Samurai Project. Set up is a Gen4 Glock 19 with TRYBE Defense milled slide and a trijicon RMR with the anti flicker sealing plate.
yesterday I went shooting, and with the two main goals for me being confirming that the irons and dot were both zeroed, and that there weren’t any issues that would make it unwise to start carrying that on the daily instead of either the stock slide with Proctor Y notch sights or (like I’ve been doing) the G29.
so I’m shooting 10 round strings at a 2 inch circle at 10 yards. The results were consistently low or to the right. Not a low right group, but I’d have 2 separate groups, one 3 inches low, but dead on left and right, and the other 3 inches to the right but dead on vertically. I’m cross eye dominant so I tried strings of fire with both eyes open and with my left eye closed thinking it might be a funky vision thing, results were the same. I wanted to make sure it wasn’t a me problem so I shot ten rounds through my Ruger 22 pistol (admittedly a much easier gun to shoot but i didn’t feel like using any of my 10mm carry ammo) and I was getting slightly low groups about 2 inches in diameter. I went and checked the screws holding the optic and they were both tight, but I was able to get one of them about a quarter turn tighter, with zero change in results.
Only other thing that was unusual was that the irons rear sight had to be adjusted pretty far to the right to get me hitting where I wanted to be.
the obvious problems I can think of:
- I’m shifting my focus from the target to the red dot and not maintaining target focus
- issue with the slide milling being out of spec and sight moving under recoil
- I’m doing something funky with my trigger control and grip
- slide being out of spec and not properly allinged with the barrel.
just wondering if anyone else has had this problem, or if there’s any other possible culprit that I should be looking at?
thanks guys
