A quick disclaimer (excuse). I went to my local DNR range, where safety is harder to provide than the indoor range I frequent. When I first walked to my station and started to load my mags, I heard the guy next to me say to his range partner, "No, no, no... you're trying to load 9mm into a 40 cal." For the next 20 minutes, I was halfway expecting to hear a major malfunction and possibly take some shrapnel to my left side. After I relaxed from that a bit, I heard the station two down from me being warned of keeping the pistol pointed downrange a couple different times. Needless to say, it wasn't the most therapeutic range session that I've had.
Glad you were able to put your DW through it's initial paces! Is the front sight drift-able in a dove tail? If so, should be an easy fix.
This makes me glad I have a small range in the backyard. The few times I've been to the local outdoor range a buddy and I were by ourselves, or I was with some local LE. That sounds scary.
Nice range report Erik! Clearly, your DW likes Speer Lawman! It's hard to concentrate on groupings when you think someone might be pointing a pistol at you from several lanes away.
When I go to the DNR range, I usually try to isolate myself from the other shooters, but they only have five 10 yard stations. So, it's hard to distance myself when using a handgun there. Up until last week, I'd only shot rifles at that range.
It's indeed a dove tail. I was going to already have it adjusted by now, but decided to go to the range once again just to make sure it was not...
If you have dial or digital calipers, you can lay a straight edge against the flat side of the slide and measure from the straight edge to the side of the front sight post. If it is not the same distances on both sides, then the sight is not centered on the slide.
Lernt it on yew tube 'bout installing front sights.
That HK and DW look pretty good sittin' next to each other. How do you like the fiber optic front sight on your DW?
Thanks. Truthfully, I'm not too crazy about it. My eyes don't pick up the contrast with the rear sight in sunlight as much as I thought they would. I might just not have a good grasp on how to utilize it to it's full potential.
That is an easy cure. Fortunately most of them can be enlarged by a quick push with the hot windbreak of an old Zippo.I don't really care them either. I't not the color or contrast for me, it's just the diameter of the fiber optic itself seems too small. I don't even think it's 2mm around. I like at least a 3mm for a front post
That is an easy cure. Fortunately most of them can be enlarged by a quick push with the hot windbreak of an old Zippo.
But you use the dot not the sight blade when aiming.I was thinking along those lines as well, but it wouldn't alter the overall width of the sight blade, if that is an issue. I've been contemplating some "10-8" brand sights and they offer different widths and height front sight blades.
But you use the dot not the sight blade when aiming.
I only have one gun with a fiber sight and honestly, I have been underwhelmed by it.Granted, but in shaded conditions (or dark, using a flashlight) without adequate side lighting, does the FO dot remain prominent, or is the front sight picture reduced to a solid blade. I don't have any FO sights yet, but where I shoot most, the firing line is covered and faces to the east. So most non-FO dots are indistinct at best and the front sight picture is reduced to essentially a solid blade, particularly if early morning sun is to my front. That has been my deliberation on whether to try a FO front sight.