When sometimes it all works just right, and sometimes it just plain doesn't!

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I had a "Six" day at the range. I brought my 2 3/4" Speed Six, along with a rarely shot 4" Security Six. I had to sight in the Security Six and got to work. Set target at 10 yards and got a nice tight group...3" high. Tightened down rear sight at tried again. A little lower, but still a few inches high. I tightened it as far as it will go, and tried again. I'm still about 2" high at 10 yards and the rear sight won't move any more. If it were heavy-for-caliber ammo, I could perhaps understand, but this was 130gr target stuff. Weird. Wondering if I need to get some kind of taller front sight.

Then there's the one that worked. On a whim, i loaded the Speed Six and took a shot at the 100 yard gong at the rang. DING! "No way," I thought to myself. Had to be a fluke. Let me try again. DING!
I put 3 cylinders through the gun, all 130gr UMC, and averaged 4/6 hits on the 6" gong.
I don't think I could ever do it again since I'm just not THAT good. But the stars, the gun, the ammo and even the shooter all must have aligned yesterday. Freaky.

Have you ever had an experience where it all just came together almost magically?

What do you suggest I do about the Security Six's sight issue? Try different ammo before playing with anything? New sight? Just shoot farther distances?
 
My Speed Six 2 3/4 is my favorite revolver. I don't shoot it as well as you do however. I did kill a ground squirrel at about 10 yards with it once. I was more surprised than the ground squirrel. I love those old six series Rugers. I had a Security Six that I gave to a friend and a Service Six that I sold. Just stupid.
 
My Speed Six 2 3/4 is my favorite revolver. I don't shoot it as well as you do however.
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Nah nah, don't take my post to indicate that I shoot like that all the time. Like I said, it all aligned just right and somehow I made those shots. I guarantee if I go back to the range tomorrow and try again, I'll miss 6/6, but I'll be close enough to scare the bejeebers out of the gong!!!
 
Absolutely a good point. I like, for my own peace of mind, to know that POA=POI in my guns, without having to worry about Kentucky windage. But you're absolutely right about it.

I was actually thinking of getting the XS sights for this wheel gun anyway, so maybe they will fix the issue.
 
Try just about any other ammo. It's been my experience on the range that the cheapo 130gr FMJ is really hit or miss. Some revolvers will shoot it, some have trouble staying on the paper past 10yds.
 
May I suggest you try some real ammo first?

19-3 Ben, the FMJ 130 grain ammo is the commercial version of the the M41 .38 Special round. The round was specifically built to be fired in the all aluminum 'Aircrewman' revolver. Regular .38 Special ammunition (158 grain LRN at about 750 fps) tended to beat the revolvers useless in limited use. So the 130 grain FMJ ammunition was developed. According to the Field manual, it develops 950 fps, but actual use in a four inch revolver shows close to 750 fps. It is a light load. (Light like pixie dust.)

On the bright side, it doesn't have much recoil and works in speed loaders like grease through a goose.

Try something with standard 158 grain bullets. Just the regular LRN load if you can find some. That loading should print closer to the factory sights for you. If that doesn't work, then spend money on gunsmithing.

I should have asked this first: Is this revolver chambered in .38 Special, or .357 Magnum? Shooting the 'designated' ammo may make it hit closer to the sights.

However, I have had a couple Security Sixes in the past and have two (short and a four) now. The rear sight should adjust enough to shoot .38 Special wadcutters to adjustment. Maybe it (the rear sight) needs cleaning to remove grit and debris from underneath the leaf? Just grasping at straws.
 
I like to shoot steel at 150 yds. Don't hit them all the time but enough to keep me interested.
 
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