Mark K
Active Member
My wife's got a new Glock 42.
With the non-availability of .380 ACP ammunition, my first challenge was to work up a hand load that would cycle the gun reliably. Turned out it needs to be a pretty-hot load, near the top end of the recommendations. (For reference, 3.3 grains of HP-38 with a 100-gn FMJ bullet.)
Next challenge was, at 5 yards she was consistently hitting about 3" left and about an inch low. "OK, dear,", I said, "you're obviously pushing the trigger to the left and anticipating the recoil." So I tried it, and was hitting ... 3" left and an inch low.
"OK, I'm obviously pushing the trigger left and anticipating." So I tried it sitting supported on a shooting table, paying close attention to my trigger pull. Same thing.
So I got an inexpensive sight tool that would work with the G42 (an NcStar VISM -- works real well). In order to hit centered for windage, I had to push the rear sight this far to the right:
That's at the very edge of the dovetail. I've never had to adjust a handgun sight this far, and it just looks...weird. Is this cause for concern? Or could something else be out-of-whack with the gun?
I'm getting really good groups otherwise.
Not sure what I can do about the elevation error, but we can live with that...
*edit* Looking through some YouTube videos, I'm seeing some Glock rear sight pushed this far or more. Here's a Glock 36 that's a "tack driver" now:
And here's a Glock that has the rear sight pushed even farther to the left, a bit beyond the dovetail -- I assume adjusted that way:
So maybe this isn't that unusual...?
With the non-availability of .380 ACP ammunition, my first challenge was to work up a hand load that would cycle the gun reliably. Turned out it needs to be a pretty-hot load, near the top end of the recommendations. (For reference, 3.3 grains of HP-38 with a 100-gn FMJ bullet.)
Next challenge was, at 5 yards she was consistently hitting about 3" left and about an inch low. "OK, dear,", I said, "you're obviously pushing the trigger to the left and anticipating the recoil." So I tried it, and was hitting ... 3" left and an inch low.
"OK, I'm obviously pushing the trigger left and anticipating." So I tried it sitting supported on a shooting table, paying close attention to my trigger pull. Same thing.
So I got an inexpensive sight tool that would work with the G42 (an NcStar VISM -- works real well). In order to hit centered for windage, I had to push the rear sight this far to the right:
That's at the very edge of the dovetail. I've never had to adjust a handgun sight this far, and it just looks...weird. Is this cause for concern? Or could something else be out-of-whack with the gun?
I'm getting really good groups otherwise.
Not sure what I can do about the elevation error, but we can live with that...
*edit* Looking through some YouTube videos, I'm seeing some Glock rear sight pushed this far or more. Here's a Glock 36 that's a "tack driver" now:
And here's a Glock that has the rear sight pushed even farther to the left, a bit beyond the dovetail -- I assume adjusted that way:
So maybe this isn't that unusual...?