This is correct:
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Originally Posted by kthom
[...] if you want to move your bullet strikes on the target to the right while using a correct sight picture, you move your rear sight to the right. If you are moving the front sight to do the same thing, you move it to the left! That's left and right looking down the barrel from the rear, of course.
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It might be easier for the original poster to visualize if he thought of sighting in a rifle for a few hundred yards out with sights that are off to one side of the bore by and inch. He'd make his line of sight almost parallel to the bore but with a very slight angle toward the center. His front sight is off to the right so to get his line of sight parallel to the bore the rear sight also needs to be off to the right.
With the rifle there are a few other items that do not do much to clear up how to sight in a pistol. We'd consider bullet drop. Also I'd zero the rifle to hit one inch to the side of point of aim to to keep the bullet's trajectory in a vertical plane parallel to the bore. That way I would not have to remember it'll cross over to the other side at long range. Deer do not care much about an inch. This comes up mounting scopes on rifles that eject straight up.