pedropcola
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The guy above said it well. If some guy is popping rounds at you from distance then you should defend yourself if you can't escape and you should at least occasionally practice the long stuff. Just in case. Secondly, this idea that people bandy about thinking you know what the scenario is going to be where you need to defend yourself or your family is absolutely ludicrous. You get what you get, not what you have convinced yourself is going to be the scenario. There is nothing mechanical about a small gun that makes it inaccurate. Shorter sight radius won't help but it also isn't a massive hindrance. The stock sight are pretty good for this class of gun. Practice at distance. Practice support hand. Practice.
As for sighting it in. I have multiples of this gun and talked my buddy into one. I have had to adjust every single one because they shoot left. Not me shooting left, them shooting left. S&W should do better. The issue with these guns (having installed/adjusted dozens of sights over the years) is quite simply size. On a normal sized gun you can drift the sight enough to usually get POA/POI. On these guns to do that I had to visibly drift the rear and due to small dovetail dimensions it looked visibly off center. My OCD could not handle that so I ended up on all of them adjusting the rear a tiny bit one way and the front a tiny bit the other way. By doing that it doubled the effort but none of them look anything but basically centered visually. It took twice as long (drifting both front and rear) but it was worth it to me.
As for sighting it in. I have multiples of this gun and talked my buddy into one. I have had to adjust every single one because they shoot left. Not me shooting left, them shooting left. S&W should do better. The issue with these guns (having installed/adjusted dozens of sights over the years) is quite simply size. On a normal sized gun you can drift the sight enough to usually get POA/POI. On these guns to do that I had to visibly drift the rear and due to small dovetail dimensions it looked visibly off center. My OCD could not handle that so I ended up on all of them adjusting the rear a tiny bit one way and the front a tiny bit the other way. By doing that it doubled the effort but none of them look anything but basically centered visually. It took twice as long (drifting both front and rear) but it was worth it to me.
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