Sight alignment

Chuck Shoun · 10-30-2001, 03:01 PM

Yesterday I went shooting with my Luger. I used a B-29 silhouette target at 25 feet. The B-29 target is the 50 yard silhouette target scaled down to 50 feet. It's a great body target for refining defense shooting. Anyway, the sun was behind me in such a way that I could not see the front sight, nor align the sights -- the rear sight, front sight and target were all the same shade of black. As a "point shooter" I'm not the best on the world. I had a set of Novak sights installed on my Browning High Power -- they have a white dot each side of the rear notch and one just below the top of the front sight -- align the dots, hold center of mass, fire! That gave me the following idea.

After cleaning the Luger, I cleaned the rear surfaces of the rear sight and the front sight with alcohol to remove all grease and oil. I made a dot on each side of the "V" notch on the rear sight on the back side of the sight and painted the top 1/16 inch on the back side of the front sight. I used a Pilot GOLD MARKER. It is a small felt tip type marker but uses paint instead of ink. These are available at K-Mart and maybe many other stores. So far it seems to enable me to align the sights much quicker. Especially when holding a center of mass hold on the silhouette target. Thought it might be handy to other shooters, too.

10-30-2001, 03:01 PM	#1
Chuck Shoun User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Brigham City, UT Posts: 30 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Sight alignment Yesterday I went shooting with my Luger. I used a B-29 silhouette target at 25 feet. The B-29 target is the 50 yard silhouette target scaled down to 50 feet. It's a great body target for refining defense shooting. Anyway, the sun was behind me in such a way that I could not see the front sight, nor align the sights -- the rear sight, front sight and target were all the same shade of black. As a "point shooter" I'm not the best on the world. I had a set of Novak sights installed on my Browning High Power -- they have a white dot each side of the rear notch and one just below the top of the front sight -- align the dots, hold center of mass, fire! That gave me the following idea. After cleaning the Luger, I cleaned the rear surfaces of the rear sight and the front sight with alcohol to remove all grease and oil. I made a dot on each side of the "V" notch on the rear sight on the back side of the sight and painted the top 1/16 inch on the back side of the front sight. I used a Pilot GOLD MARKER. It is a small felt tip type marker but uses paint instead of ink. These are available at K-Mart and maybe many other stores. So far it seems to enable me to align the sights much quicker. Especially when holding a center of mass hold on the silhouette target. Thought it might be handy to other shooters, too.