how does shallow rear sight work?

[seamaster]

I moved the rear sight plate up to max as much as my LP10 allows.

I seem to shoot much better with this shallow rear sight. I am able to group shots pretty well.

But there are usually one or two really wild shots out of the ten shots group.

Is this the effect of shallow rear sight? Good grouping but pay the price of occasional wild shot?

[paw080]

Sorry Seamaster, but the "wild" shots are part of your group. If you can
shoot a tight group without any pellets taking an excursion to nether regions,
and that's with the deeper sight notch, then stay with the deeper notch.

Of course give the shallow notch settings a couple of weeks and see if your
shooting catches up.

Tony G

[RobStubbs]

Is this the effect of shallow rear sight? Good grouping but pay the price of occasional wild shot?

I have to admit I've never heard of that and don't really follow why it should be. It could be an affect of you not seeing enough of the foresight and hence not concentrating fully on it. Out of interest, where do the fliers go, and are they always in the same place ?

Rob.

[2650 Plus]

I prefer symetry in the sight relationship. The sight relationship that seems to work best for me is a deep enough rear sight notch to have the front sight appear square in firing position. I have no idea how a shallow sight would work as I have never experimented with this relationship. I must say that I probably never will try it. Good Shooting Bill Horton

[Spencer]

on shallow rear sight notch - a number of eastern europeans used wide (i.e. proportionally wide) rear sights for RFP during the 60s and 70s. This allowed for a quick acquisition of the sight picture to the slight detriment of sight picture accuracy.

S