Many years ago, I bought a new 8-3/8" Model 14 that I stumbled upon in a gun shop for $144.95. The gun was ordered for a customer who had not come in to pick it up in over a year, so they were selling it with his deposit applied to the price.

I decided to hunt ground hogs with it when the hay was too high to permit prone shooting with a rifle. With 148-grain wadcutters, it printed dead-on using a six o'clock hold on a 25-yard NRA target with the tops of both sights level with one another. But with the 110-grain hollow-points I wanted to use for hunting, it shot very low - at about the bottom of the black bull - even with the rear sight adjusted upward as far as possible.

I contacted S&W and was told to send the gun in for repairs. They installed a higher rear sight blade that permitted the sight to be adjusted to center both loads.

Ed