have CVA Mountain pistol that shoots about a foot low at
25 yards, does this mean that the front sight has been filed too short?
Seems like I remember that if it shoots high you lower the front sight,
therefore if it shoots low the front site is too low and I need to lower
the rear site or do I have it backwards?
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Before you do ANY thing to the sights, try several different loads to see which one hits closest to point of aim. Of course, you want the load that gives the best accuracy for the amount of powder too (if you're wanting a hunting load, you may have to give up a little accuracy to gain more power).
After you go through all the above, THEN is when you want to make sight adjustments to get the point of aim and the point of impact at roughly the same place. If anything, when using a pistol for hunting, you should want the gun to shoot a little bit high relative to your aiming point. That gives you some extra range if you should need it, AND I like it hitting higher so that I can actually see the point on the target(deer?) that I'm "supposed" to hit.
If you are hitting low, you lower the front sight or raise the rear sight. Hitting low, means that the front sight is too high (or the rear sight is too low). If you can't raise the rear sight enough to raise the bullet's impact point, then you have to lower your front sight (which does the same thing). Since it's REALLY difficult to replace metal once it's filed away, you need to be absolutely sure that you are going in the correct direction and that you make very small changes and check by actual firing.
I'm no mathematics whiz, but it is supposed to be really easy to figure out how much to change the sight. I'm told it's just a matter of the ratio of the error at the target divided by the gun's sight radius???? (while keeping all the measurement units the same)
I do hope someone else on here could give you the correct calculations and how to get the exact answer.
Regards, and good luck on your shooting,
WV_Hillbilly
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