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Originally Posted by gordonrick
Just curious. Did S&W really bother to fine tune the front sights on the BSR's? After all it was wartime production, it was really intended for close combat ranges anyway, and it sure looks to be the exact same height as my 5" 1902 M&P.
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I have no documentary support for my opinion, but I doubt it. No zeroing is likely to have taken place of individual guns.
And since the factory was still using the .38/200 terminology and, according to Roy Jinks, using the K-200 term in-house, it’s unlikely anybody bothered to account for the fact that by the time production began, the 200-grain lead had been at least “officially” replaced by the 179-grain jacketed bullet.
S&W did not worry about such niceties, and neither did the British; on the early-war-finish Webley Mk IV’s, the suitable bullet weight was stamped: 145 - 200 grains. Shoot anything in that range
