If you want the gun to shoot to the left, do you move the rear sight to the right? Just checking, someone said you move the rear sight in the direction you want the bullet to go and I am sure he is wrong!

thanks,
Reddy375

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Originally posted by reddy375:
If you want the gun to shoot to the left, do you move the rear sight to the right? Just checking, someone said you move the rear sight in the direction you want the bullet to go and I am sure he is wrong!

thanks,
Reddy375

Don't be so sure...

The simplest way to remember is to move the rear sight the direction you want the bullet to go.

quote:

Originally posted by reddy375:
If you want the gun to shoot to the left, do you move the rear sight to the right? Just checking, someone said you move the rear sight in the direction you want the bullet to go and I am sure he is wrong!

thanks,
Reddy375

You move the rear sight IN THE DIRECTION YOU WANT TO MOVE THE STRIKE OF THE BULLET ON THE TARGET! If you want to raise the bullet impact, you raise the rear sight. If you want to move the bullet left, you move the sight portside (ie, to the left, as you look forward toward the muzzle from the breech....). (And movement of the FRONT SIGHT is just the opposite of moving the rear sight)

What you're belief is, seems to me to be just the reverse of the actual requirement. "someone said you move the rear sight in the direction you want the bullet to go and I am sure he is wrong!" Sorry! It's YOU who are wrong! You can demonstrate this with a pencil. Put a pencil on the table. Imagine it has a front sight in the center of the pencil point, and a rear sight leaf lying on the top flat of the pencil at the rear.

Now move the rear end of the pencil to the right, as would happen if you moved the rear sight leaf TO THE LEFT then realigned it with the centered front sight- what happens? The "muzzle" (pencil point) now points more to the left, so the bullet impact would also move further to the left than before.....

Thanks for your reconfirmation. I am guilty as charged.

quote:

Originally posted by reddy375:
If you want the gun to shoot to the left, do you move the rear sight to the right? Just checking, someone said you move the rear sight in the direction you want the bullet to go and I am sure he is wrong!

thanks,
Reddy375

I am trying to forget that I ever knew you.

Move the rear sight in the direction you want the bullet to move. And the front sight in the opposite direction.

He's absolutely right, Arjun...in the direction of desired POI...

If remembering moving moving the rear sight either left or right is too abstract, I always think of rear ladder sights such as Enfields or tang sights. You have to raise them to shoot higher. Same applies sideways.