617 Blues

[H Richard]

I bought my 6" 617-6 slightly used. It had a very attractive gold dot front sight on it, and it shot 6 or 8 inches low. I measured the sight and as nice as it looked it wouldn't work. I swapped out with a factory height sight and it was just fine. I have since added a Burris Fastfire red dot, and love it. It will shoot right at 1/2" at 13 yards (from a rest) with bulk Remington plated bullets, and better with Aguila Standard Vel.

 

[.38SuperMan]

My error. My 617 is striking low. I think I was so irritated, posting my first entry right after returning from the range, I complained that it was printing "high." 'Other way around.

Your post did a pretty good job of confusing everyone including costing yourself an unnecessary trip to Smith.

If your 617 is printing low and your rear sight is at the bottom, that’s your problem. You needed to adjust your rear sight up to raise the point of impact of the bullet. You don’t need to replace the front sight, rear blade or send it to Smith. All you needed to do was analyze the problem and adjust the rear sight accordingly, UP.

You adjust the rear sight the same direction you want to move the point of impact.

 

[AveragEd]

All I can say is DUHHH

I obviously failed to read the OP's post completely - yes, you move the rear sight in the direction you wish the POI to move. I teach trapshooters this all the time (their eye is their rear sight).

Ed

 

[Imissedagain]

Our BT99 only had the rib with a front and mid bead, non adjustable. The mid bead was a hair off center, to starboard, so I removed that mistake. With rib and front bead, if I don't shoot at the occasional horizontal Earth skimmers, 24-25 get smoked.
XFull is all I use, as I let them fly.
Fun game.
Wobble Trap is not fun.