Adjustable or Fixed Sights

[Greg528iT]

Which begs the question. For those WITH adjustable sights, "How often do you adjust your sights?" Do you know how many clicks up or down each load is? Do you bother when running just a few rounds of a different load thru?
I picked up a Ruger (NEW) Vaquero for the smoother lines. I've been experimenting with a few different loads, bullet weights. I've been thinking I'll get around to filing the sights once I come across my 90% shooting load.. (light and light).. at the 12 yard trap.. then throw some 270 grain (mod Keith) hunting loads at the 25 yard trap.. hope to find a balance between the 2, but mostly set the height for the 90% shooting.. I figure if I have the hunting load in, and am out in the woods, the animal I need to stop WON'T be at exactly 12, or 25 yards, and I'll need to compensate anyway.

 

[Vern Humphrey]

Once he finds a good load, why would he change it?

For a better load?

For a load used for a different purpose?

For a different lot of the same load (different lots will sometimes shoot to different points of aim.)

Because he gets a better deal on a different primer, different powder, different bullet?

 

[StrawHat]

For a better load?

For a load used for a different purpose?

For a different lot of the same load (different lots will sometimes shoot to different points of aim.)

Because he gets a better deal on a different primer, different powder, different bullet?

Some of that makes sense. I generally get settled on one load and don't change. Getting there is half the fun and might take a few years but once I settle on a load, it is there for keeps. I have not noticed primers or even different lots of powder to influence my loads that greatly. As for bullets, I cast 100% of my bullets so unless I lose a mold, they aren't changing. But I understand your answer.

 

[jeepnik]

But once you have filed metal off, if you change your load, you can't file it back on again.

Sure you can. It's called welding. Done it more than once on a fix sighted handgun.

 

[Vern Humphrey]

Hmmm . . . I've adjusted the sights on a handgun with my Swiss Army pocket knife more than once -- who has a pocket welder?

 

[BCRider]

Ya know......

Some of S&W revolvers used to come with a 4 position preset front sight setup. It was intended primarily, I gather, to be used on big bore mettalic sihouette events with each position being set for the specific range for that string of targets. Each position had it's own click set elevation screw and a coined rim dial selected which preset screw controlled the front sight elevation.

Seems like it would be pretty sweet if a similar setup could be fairly easily incorporated into a longer distance big boomer. It would provide 4 to 6 positions to allow for varying loads or distances or some combo of the two to cover a couple or three loads and distances.

The only trouble I can see with this is that it MAY involve a heavier top strap and barrel rib to house the mechanism. Also it may mean that the windage adjustment would need to move to the front sight, or else we would have to live with the rather bulky looking original S&W setup for this sight.

But it WOULD address a good number of issues for us folks that like to shoot the big bore stuff over a wide range of distances or that like to shoot a wide range of load power factors.

 

[jeepnik]

Hmmm . . . I've adjusted the sights on a handgun with my Swiss Army pocket knife more than once -- who has a pocket welder?

Well, some JB Weld in you pack and a file and you could do it. It might not be as pretty or last as long as what you can do in a shop, but it "could" be done. Heck, I've always got that stuff in my Jeep anyway, cuz you just never know.

 

[Vern Humphrey]

How do you keep your gun from sticking to your holster?