Tomorrow is the next steel match...

...but I had to write a quick update regarding my handgun sights.

In good news, the distance misses don't seem to be my fault. Not exactly. Close misses are still my problem, though. (But I haven't had many of those---which explains why "stand-and-shoot" stages haven't gone well, but "freestyle-movement" stages have been good---I can move to where I need to, and with good movement I get closer shots in good time.)

Checking my sights today at 20 feet, 40 feet, and 60 feet, I find that my Glock 34 shoots to the right. Only slightly at 20 feet. (Hence the lack of problems at close ranges.) However, at 40 feet and up, it shoots several inches to the right---which is enough to take my shots off steel targets if I'm not aiming exactly perfectly at the center of the target. (Which, at speed, I'm certainly NOT.)

So, I adjusted my sights. We'll see how much of an effect that has on the match tomorrow. (Steel match again---makeup for the canceled January match.)

That being said---I'm fairly certain that some of it is my fault in terms of how I'm shooting. I'm not inconsistent--I'm shooting nice small groups. They are just consistently to the right with the old sight settings. The problem is that when I adjust the sights and I'm consistently shooting center, the rear sights themselves seem FAR to the left. As in noticeably to the left when looking at the gun.

The annoying thing is that I was doing this sometimes from a braced position (no arm movement, just a slow, careful trigger squeeze) and sometimes from standing unbraced--and I was shooting to the same place. So left/right -wise, my trigger pull doesn't seem to be the problem. It just seems odd that the sight needs to be so far to the left...

The sight itself is centered in the middle of the slide like it is supposed to be. (The Glock 34 has an adjustable rear sight.) The adjustable part is just far to the left.

I'm wonder if I should spring for a better set of sights?

Well---anyway, the gun is now shooting where it is supposed to. So tomorrow we'll find out if I can shoot where I'm supposed to.