Dave King
Bearcat
On a recent "zeroing" trip my Super Black Hawk (SBH) bottomed out the sight and was still hitting high. Upon closer examination once I got home (via loupe cuz I'm old(ish) and can't see near items) I noticed the rear sight was still about .025 off the bottom stop (the SBH frame).
I took the rear sight off and found that the sight was hitting some of the frame casting. It appears this particular sight was mounted further forward (pivot hole extra rearward) and the crossmember holding the sight blade was making contact before the sight could swing completely to the bottom of its stroke.
With a little filing and some aluminum black I have another .030 to .040 inch of sight travel recovered.
This image is of another sight I lowered about .020 and I've highlighted the area I additionally needed to remove on the SBH sight.
The extra travel isn't much but I generally/normally end up with my rear sight at the bottom, the little extra lets me shoot with a little extra "down" left. I believe the .020 gives me about 2" to 2.5" of buffer at 25 yards on the 7.5" barrel guns.
Anyone else mess with the rear sight to get some adjustment back?
I took the rear sight off and found that the sight was hitting some of the frame casting. It appears this particular sight was mounted further forward (pivot hole extra rearward) and the crossmember holding the sight blade was making contact before the sight could swing completely to the bottom of its stroke.
With a little filing and some aluminum black I have another .030 to .040 inch of sight travel recovered.
This image is of another sight I lowered about .020 and I've highlighted the area I additionally needed to remove on the SBH sight.
The extra travel isn't much but I generally/normally end up with my rear sight at the bottom, the little extra lets me shoot with a little extra "down" left. I believe the .020 gives me about 2" to 2.5" of buffer at 25 yards on the 7.5" barrel guns.
Anyone else mess with the rear sight to get some adjustment back?