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Old 08-08-2014, 09:00 AM
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I use the calipers to check the height of the sight from the bottom of the barrel. (Arbitrary but convienent number.) Then either note the difference from the old setting of the number (i.e. 1-4) or compare to the other settings recorded on the other numbers as needed. Changes downrange are easily calculated.

The rear sight setting is a bit of a finagling business if you use up lots of travel in the front sight. More than once I've run out of travel on one or the other! But generally, I move the front setting for zero and leave the rear for temporary tweaking. That and windage, which is really more due to minor grip and trigger pull changes and sometime ammo. Rarely does wind have much to do with it...Whole 'nuther subject!

Use the front settings for whatever you want. But it might be a good idea to write it all down.

There are a lot of interesting and new-to-me concepts in what you just wrote.

Writing things down - sounds like a very good idea, but none of that will be meaningful in the future, were I to make a change to the elevation setting in the rear sight.... Someplace I've got a pair of inexpensive plastic calipers, and I've also got an excellent digital caliper which is far more repeatable.

I guess I would start by doing this by eyeballing where the bullet holes are placed, but I've been doing a lot of data recording for CEP (Measuring A Firearm's Accuracy) which gives the mathematical center of any number of holes more accurately than I can doing it "by eye".

This past Monday, I took the gun for the first time in three decades to a range - my indoor range, where shooting distance is 15 yards max. Now that I've found where the numbers are on that front sight wheel, I see they're on #1. I've never touched any of those settings since i got the gun in the 1980's. I would say the center of my groupings was between 3.5" and 4" higher than where I was aiming.

(This is with a 6" Shoot-n-c" target, shooting it "lollipop" style, so all the holes were always in the black. When I tried to hold it centered as I prefer to do, the bullets were much too high. I decided I'd shoot the box of ammo anyway, to get used to the gun, and when i got home I'd try to figure out which sight to adjust......)


One last question - for as long as I can remember, I have shot all my guns single-action. I've been reading how I'll never get good trigger control unless I learn how to shoot double-action, and this gun has such a smooth trigger pull that it makes double action shooting effortless. For those who do the silhouette shooting, do they mostly use SA or DA?
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Old 08-11-2014, 03:06 AM
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This past Monday, I took the gun for the first time in three decades to a range - my indoor range, where shooting distance is 15 yards max. Now that I've found where the numbers are on that front sight wheel, I see they're on #1. I've never touched any of those settings since i got the gun in the 1980's. I would say the center of my groupings was between 3.5" and 4" higher than where I was aiming.

(This is with a 6" Shoot-n-c" target, shooting it "lollipop" style, so all the holes were always in the black. When I tried to hold it centered as I prefer to do, the bullets were much too high. I decided I'd shoot the box of ammo anyway, to get used to the gun, and when i got home I'd try to figure out which sight to adjust......)


One last question - for as long as I can remember, I have shot all my guns single-action. I've been reading how I'll never get good trigger control unless I learn how to shoot double-action, and this gun has such a smooth trigger pull that it makes double action shooting effortless. For those who do the silhouette shooting, do they mostly use SA or DA?
Last question first: I reckon Jerry Miculek might could shoot IHMSA well DA, but probably nobody else would care for the results!

If the impacts are high just crank the front sight well up. There's a downward projection on the pivoting portion of the sight that allows for good results even after the flat part of the sight platform shows it's undersides. Pretty normal for my slow moving loads, actually!
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Old 08-11-2014, 08:33 AM
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IMR4227 and cast bullets seem to be easy on the M29. I have only seen one M29 that would pop open when fired. That one happened when a lady in a wheel chair that had a stroke would fire with her weak hand. Her strong hand arm was paralyzed. This M29 did not do this when her husband fired it. Elmers load was all he used in that M29.
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Old 08-12-2014, 01:14 PM
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Thanks - will try this the next time I go to the range. I'd do it this week, but I forgot to bring my Allen wrench set with me.
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Old 10-24-2015, 08:27 PM
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Hi guys interesting thread...I got my silhouette new in case..but NICKLE! I was told there were only 5 made in Nickle..dont know if thats true..but here is the logic for rarity..why would a silhouette shooter want a bright shiny nickle of competition etc? Any comments?

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Old 10-26-2015, 12:49 AM
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Hi guys interesting thread...I got my silhouette new in case..but NICKLE! I was told there were only 5 made in Nickle..dont know if thats true..but here is the logic for rarity..why would a silhouette shooter want a bright shiny nickle of competition etc? Any comments?

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As long as the sights aren't shiny, I don't reckon it much matters what the rest of the firearm's finish might be. Since we sometimes shoot in rainy weather, maybe the nickle finish was for worrywart types? Or could have been just old school bling for "show-off"folk?
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Old 10-26-2015, 09:39 PM
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Ok Great! Who keeps records on how many blue vs nickle guns are made in Sihouttes? most all nickle S&Ws are 20% or less of total production...right?
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Old 10-26-2015, 09:44 PM
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What is the production number of m29 silhouettes? Who keeps this data on S&Ws??? 1000 tops??
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Old 10-28-2015, 02:20 AM
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anyone know?
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