9 Pro sight help

[russ_]

I purchased an M&P 9 Pro 5" a little while ago and am consistently having trouble with my vertical sight alignment with the front fiber optic sight. During rapid acquisition I tend to shoot low by several inches at 10-15 yards. I have somewhere near 1100 rounds through it and have had this issue the whole time. If I really take my time and focus on the front sight and deliberately line it up, I do OK, but as the speed increases the shots start going low again. I'm considering switching to a set of 10-8 Performance sights and looking for input before I do anything drastic.

Side note: I just completed a four day handgun course with this pistol and fired somewhere around 700 rounds over the four days. This gun had one FTF on the morning of day 3 but ran flawlessly other than that.

 

[OKFC05]

I shoot the M&P Pro 9 5" with factory FO sights in competition and am also an NRA pistol instructor.

What you are describing is a classic case of looking at the target instead of the front sight. There is a reason the USPSA magazine is called the "Front Sight!"

It might help to put a contrasting color (ike red) FO rod in the front sight, but the basic issue is operator training. At short ranges, it is appropriate to look over the sights at the target (this is point shooting), but at 10-15 yards you should be focused on the front sight and the target should be blurred.

For us older shooters, wearing "computer glasses" that focus at 1 meter helps us focus on the front sight as we should, letting the target blur. An older shooter with distance vision glasses will inevitably focus on the target, not the sights, and trying to shoot fast with bifocals or trifocals is a nightmare.

Oh, and did I mention the critical importance of trigger control and follow through when shooting rapidly?