Dull, boring, background information. Feel free to skip to the photo below...
I went back to the indoor range yesterday, thinking everything would go well, but it was just the opposite. One of those days when nothing worked. My M28 wouldn't fire three bullets in a row, but it did put indents in the primers. I tried the M19 I brought along just in case there were issues, and it fired the bullets with no problem. The accuracy (my accuracy with the M19) was pathetic. That's another topic.
I had a local "gunsmith" from Fellsmere (he's not a licensed gunsmith, but he does work on guns) check out the gun a month ago, and I started wondering where he left the strain screw (thanks to you guys who beat all that information into my brain a while back, I knew about strain screws). I tightened the strain screw all the way, and that problem was fixed.
I was real careful to make sure I'm paying attention to the front sight, especially the gap on either side of it, and while some of my bullets made a nice tight grouping, others went way off one way or another. I know it's me, not the gun, and if I had to guess, it was because I was firing too slowly, very aware of keeping the gap equal between the front and rear sight. Next time, the heck with that. In my dry firing, I found if I shoot faster, the gun doesn't "lurch" as much, and I "shoot" better as it's all one smooth motion, not particularly fast or slow, and then holding the trigger in for a moment after the shot for a follow-through, after which I release it smoothly.
I'll work on that next time. The gun looks and feels so good in dry-firing, that it HAS to work better for me eventually. I've been loading only one round at a time, so there's only a one in six chance that the gun will fire - making it easy to tell if I'm as smooth at the range as I am at home dry firing. (The gun must have a GPS, as it KNOWS when I'm at home or the range.... it behaves when it's at home, unloaded!)
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Enough of that - here's what I wanted to post:
I got to wondering about sight picture, and took three photos, my target, my front sight, and my rear sight. I put everything together in "layers" in Photoshop - see photo below. Once I had that, I blurred the target and the rear sight with "Photoshop Lens Blur" so they match what I think I see at the indoor range. (At the outdoor range, the target and rear sight are still blurry, but not as blurry as when i shoot indoors, which makes sense to me.) I made the target too large in my photo - it's a bit out of scale, for a 3" bull at 15 yards... I'll try to fix that later.
Edit: Fixed - see new photo further down in this thread.
I notice from my image, that when the top of the front and rear sight are in-line, when they're out of focus they no longer look in-line.
As you guys suggested, 99 % of my concentration is on the sights, and very little is on the target. I thought I was getting better at keeping the sights lined up well, but I've got a ways to go.
....and to Murf - shooting at "no target", which I also did, didn't look much worse than when there was a target there. All I could see out there was the huge "backing board", no bull, no cross, nothing to aim "at". Interesting. That turned out better than I expected it to.